Crossword clues for coalfield
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coalfield
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ Maps and memoirs of the main coalfield areas had been published and many of the one-inch sheets of non-coalfield areas had appeared.
▪ If Mr. Millan releases the money, every last penny of it will go to the coalfield areas.
▪ A detailed revision of the coalfield areas commenced in 1902.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A detailed revision of the coalfield areas commenced in 1902.
▪ Coal-fired plants are mainly located inland, and very close to existing coalfields.
▪ During their period production trebled in the coalfield.
▪ Final editing of a technical report on the Telford 1:25 000 sheet, which includes the Coalbrookdale coalfield, is in progress.
▪ He was active in the Yorkshire coalfield while I was active in the Nottinghamshire coalfield.
▪ Other coalfields have changed in similar ways.
▪ The mass of new information which started to accumulate with the pre-war coalfield revision was greatly augmented during the wartime period.
▪ The work on the coalfields was intensified and a widespread search for minerals which were normally imported, was carried out.
Wiktionary
coalfield
n. Any region containing deposits of coal that may be mined
WordNet
coalfield
n. a region where there is coal underground
Usage examples of "coalfield".
As a child, Daffer once saw a big miner from the Kentuck coalfields take six .
The millerfather nods understandingly and advises his son to go to work either in the coalfields or for him.
Evidently she hailed from the Tyne, and since the Welsh coalfields supply the iron furnaces around Swansea with as much coal as they want, it was as futile for a Tyneside collier to carry coals to the Bristol Channel ports as it would be for her to carry that commodity to Newcastle.