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cannel

n. A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.

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Usage examples of "cannel".

Like Cannel, California, elsewhere along the coast, Moonlight Cove was a town virtually built in a seaside forest.

Tessa loved Cannel for its splendid integration of the works of man and nature, where geography and architecture often appeared to be the product of the same sculptor's hand.

The soft fire of cannel coal with hickory logs radiated from the wide chimney, the heat making the moisture on Lowell's beard gleam as though from an inner light.

All the place needed was a log burning on the hearth, but this was the city, and only cannel coal was allowed, and not even that was in evidence.

At such times, too, his face flamed with augmented blazonry, as if cannel coal had been heaped on anthracite.

Guy put another chunk of cannel coal on the fire, then racked the tongs and brushed his hands with his handkerchief.

For weeks I have been feeding my furnace a mixture of coke, slack, wood-shavings, cannel coal and odds and ends of rope and raffia from the floor of my coal bin, and now it is all gone.

It was a high-backed wing chair, covered in flowered chintz, the kind of chair that a long time ago was intended to keep the draft off while you sat crouched over a fire of cannel coal.