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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Sea coal

/sē kōl/ · Sea· coal · IPA
01 Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which w…
  1. 1.
    Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.
Phrases & compounds
Sea-coal facing — facing consisting of pulverized bituminous coal.