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A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
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colliery
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it [syn: pit ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "coal mine," see collier + -y (1).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN manager ▪ He had been promised that once he had obtained his colliery manager's certificate, he would be made an assistant manager . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A young lodge leader in Barnsley took a party of us down his ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British English) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings. 2 (context US English) A facility that supplies coal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colliery \Col"lier*y\, n.; pl. Collieries . [Cf. Coalery , Collier .] The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. The coal trade. [Obs.] --Johnson.
Usage examples of colliery.
And a colliery where driverless wagons rolled along their elevated, sloping tracks under the guidance of gravity.
He was employed at various collieries, as fireman, and afterwards as plugman, and gradually acquired so complete a knowledge of the engine as to be able to take it apart and make ordinary repairs.
Davies turned his thoughts to coal and in the rich mineral district of the Rhondda Valley it was sunk, rapidly to fructify, and to form the basis of that great industrial organisation the Ocean Collieries, famed throughout this country and wherever coal is used for navigation.
It was not far to the Offices of the New Colliery Company in Ironmonger Lane, where, and not at the Cannon Street Hotel, in accordance with the more ambitious practice of other companies, the General Meeting was always held.
Old Jolyon took his Will to the offices of the New Colliery Company, and sat down in the empty Board Room to read it through.
Grin and Grinning, to give them instructions to sell his shares in the New Colliery Co.
Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands.
They drew away from the colliery region, over the curve of the hill, into the purer country of the other side, towards Willey Green.
Shortlands looked across a sloping meadow that might be a park, because of the large, solitary trees that stood here and there, across the water of the narrow lake, at the wooded hill that successfully hid the colliery valley beyond, but did not quite hide the rising smoke.
There they found the gate shut, because the colliery train was rumbling nearer.
The heavy gold glamour of approaching sunset lay over all the colliery district, and the ugliness overlaid with beauty was like a narcotic to the senses.
The colliery people felt as if this catastrophe had happened directly to themselves, indeed they were more shocked and frightened than if their own men had been killed.
He hated remorselessly the circumstances of his own life, so much that he never really saw Beldover and the colliery valley.
He looked at Beldover, at Selby, at Whatmore, at Lethley Bank, the great colliery villages which depended entirely on his mines.
They had descended the hill, and now they were coming to the square arch where the road passed under the colliery railway.