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Coaled

Coal \Coal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coaled; p. pr. & vb. n. Coaling.]

  1. To burn to charcoal; to char. [R.]

    Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces.
    --Bacon.

  2. To mark or delineate with charcoal.
    --Camden.

  3. To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

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coaled

vb. (en-past of: coal)

Usage examples of "coaled".

He could go no further until he had coaled and communicated with Constantinople.

Here, all day, the Goeben and Breslau coaled while steam was kept up in their boilers so that they might depart on half an hour’s notice.

In a buried firepit he coaled bits of hardwood for the bed of his flame, and a foot-bellows of sapling lengths and catskin fed it to a pulsing glow.

It was coaled with grass, and crowned by absurd-looking classical-style buildings, such as an open portico—some kind of unfinished temple, it seemed—and a telescope lower.

An explosion blasted close to the shed, then a cataract of noise burst all around, the floor shook and heaved, and Byron too threw himself under the table onto rough cement coaled with sandy grease.

In '66 the Suwanee coaled at an island in the Pacific which I do not care to mention, under a protectorate which did not exist then and which shall be nameless.