Coal works

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• works

  All fortificational constructions, whether permanent, field, or makeshifts of the moment; from the m...

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• Coal

  ·vt To mark or delineate with charcoal. II. Coal ·vt To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer. I...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Coal

  It is by no means certain that the Hebrews were acquainted with mineral coal, although it is found i...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Coal

  The first and most frequent use of the word rendered coal is a live ember, burning fuel. (Proverbs 2...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Copper works

  ·- A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. ...

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• Iron works

  ·- ·see under Iron, ·adj. ...

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• Works, Good

  The old objection against the doctrine of salvation by grace, that it does away with the necessity o...

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• dead works

  All that part of the ship which is above water when she is laden. The same as upper work, or superna...

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• detached works

  Works included in the scheme of defence of a fortress, but separated from it, and beyond the glacis....

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• field-works

  The constructions of field-fortification (which see). ...

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• fire-works

  See pyrotechny. ...

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• try-works

  Large copper boilers, for boiling the blubber in whalers. ...

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• upper-works

  That part of a ship which rises from the water's surface when she is properly trimmed for a voyage. ...

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• Bovey coal

  ·- A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable...

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• Caking coal

  ·- ·see <<Coal>>. ...

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• Canal coal

  ·- ·see Cannel coal. ...

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• Candle coal

  ·- ·see Cannel coal. ...

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• Cannel coal

  ·- A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It b...

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• Coal tar

  ·- A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture ...

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• Coal-black

  ·adj As black as coal; jet black; very black. ...

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• Coal-meter

  ·noun A licensed or official coal measurer in London. ·see <<Meter>>. ...

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• Coal-whipper

  ·noun One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. ...

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• Day-coal

  ·noun The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. ...

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• Kennel coal

  ·- ·see Cannel coal. ...

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• Sea coal

  ·- Coal brought by sea; — a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of Engl...

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• Coal Exchange

  On the north side of Lower Thames Street at No. 96, and at the south-east corner of St. Mary Hill (P...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Coal Wharf

  At the south end of Joyners' Alley, the easternmmost wharf in Vintry Ward (Rocque, 1746). See Golde...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• coal-hod

  A kettle for carrying coals to the fire. More frequently called, as in England, a coal-scuttle. Mr. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• kennel-coal

  a sort of coal. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• coal-fish

  The Gadus carbonarius. Called gerrack in its first year, cuth or queth in its second, sayth in its t...

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• coal-sacks

  An early name of some dark patches of sky in the Milky Way, nearly void of stars visible to the nake...

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• coal-say

  The coal-fish. ...

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• coal-tar

  Tar extracted from bituminous coal. ...

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• coal-trimmer

  One employed in a steamer to stow and trim the fuel. This duty and that of the stoker are generally ...

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• Works, Covenant of

  Entered into by God with Adam as the representative of the human race (comp. Gen. 9:11, 12; 17:1-21)...

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• Coal Meters' Office

  See Wilson's Yard. The coal-meters were 15 in number, and were officers appointed to inspect the ju...

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• Water Works, London Bridge

  On the west side of Old London Bridge, opposite St. Magnus Church, in Bridge Ward Within (O. and M. ...

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• Red Cross Coal Wharf

  South out of Upper Thames Street, on the west side of London Bridge, near Old Swan (Lockie, 1810 and...

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