Wiktionary
n. high quality coal
Usage examples of "black coal".
The thin soot that had first tinted the sky had grown to clouds of black coal dust.
I opened the door again and began shovelling hard, the shovel and the black coal lit by the lurid glow.
These old-timers, I said to myself, have been handling black coal all their lives.
The gunboat had picked them up twenty minutes ago, and it had grown from a dot on die horizon to a tiny model boat that grew as he watched, shedding a long plume of black coal smoke behind from its single cylindrical funnel.
Ralph asked, and Harry grabbed his shoulders and the two of them spun together in a yelling, stomping dance of jubilation on the narrow ledge, while Bazo leaned against the seam of black coal and watched them unsmilingly.
Other guards, drunken, whiskered wretches in bad plug-hats and worse trousers, armed derelicts, slept in toppled barrows and loading-sledges, amid a swelling debris of barrels, baskets, hawser-coils and loading-ramps, heaps of black coal for the silenced steam-derricks.
Sias added the brackish water to the quench barrel and then used a wooden scoop to add the brownish black coal to the forge coals.