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Fossil fuel found in coastal veins
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seacoal
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Seacoal may refer to: Seacoal , a 1985 feature film descripting the lives of the seacoaling community of Lynemouth, Northumberland. Coal that washes up on the seashore in places such as the Firth of Forth .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sea-coal , old name for "mineral coal" (as opposed to charcoal), mid-13c.; earlier, in Old English, it meant "jet," which chiefly was found washed ashore by the sea. The coal perhaps so called from resemblance to jet, or because it was first dug from ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) mineral coal (as opposed to charcoal)
Usage examples of seacoal.
Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, big-headed and dwarf-bodied, stood with his hunchback turned to the great seacoal fire.
Only wood is the chief want to such as study there, wherefore this kind of provision is brought them either from Essex and other places thereabouts, as is also their coal, or otherwise the necessity thereof is supplied with gall (a bastard kind of mirtus as I take it) and seacoal, whereof they have great plenty led thither by the Grant.