Wiktionary
coaling station
n. fuelling station
WordNet
coaling station
n. a seaport where ships can take on supplies of coal
Usage examples of "coaling station".
This afternoon the false coaling station plans are to be turned over to our accomplice in the War Department and in exchange he is to give us something else - the secret of which I spoke.
Hay and Adams had thought, from the beginning, that a coaling station for the American fleet would be sufficient recompense for the splendors and miseries of the small war.