Colliery

Col′lier-y

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Collieries

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.

[Cf.

Coalery

,

Collier

.]

1.

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

2.

The coal trade.

[Obs.]

Johnson.

Colliery

COLLIERY

,

Noun.

1.

The place where coal is dug.

2.

The coal trade.

colliery

English

Daw Mill colliery in the United Kingdom.

Noun

colliery ‎(plural collieries)

(Britain) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VII, p. 91,
  From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]
(US) A facility that supplies coal.

Translations

underground coal mine

Armenian: քարածխահանք (hy) ‎(kʿaracxahankʿ)
Bulgarian: каменовъглена мина ‎(kamenovǎglena mina)
Czech: uhelný důl (cs) m
Dutch: kolenmijn (nl) c
Finnish: hiilikaivos (fi)
French: houillère (fr) f (in Belgium: charbonnage (fr) m)
Irish: gualcha f, mianach guail m
Italian: miniera di carbone f

Japanese: 地下炭鉱 ‎(chika-tankō)
Macedonian: јагленокоп m ‎(jaglenokóp)
Russian: у́гольная ша́хта f ‎(úgolʹnaja šáxta)
Scottish Gaelic: mèinn-ghuail f
Serbo-Croatian: рудник угља m
Swedish: kolgruva (sv) c

facility that supplies coal

Japanese: 地下炭鉱施設 ‎(chika-tankō-shisetsu)

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