The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colliery \Col"lier*y\, n.; pl. Collieries. [Cf. Coalery, Collier.]
The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
The coal trade. [Obs.]
--Johnson.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of colliery English)
Usage examples of "collieries".
After crossing the Zambezi drifts in darkness, and negotiating the cordon sanitaire, he had made his way south through the abandoned strip and reached the main road near the collieries at Wankie.
Out of the seven, four belong to collieries which are worked out, or at least to shafts which are no longer used.
On the left was a large landscape, a valley with collieries, and opposite hills with cornfields and woods, all blackened with distance, as if seen through a veil of crape.
Two collieries, among the fields, waved their small white plumes of steam.
One after another they crowed and boomed, some small and far away, some near, the blowers of the collieries and the other works.
Great heaps of slag and dumps of cinders loomed up on each side, with the high shafts of the collieries towering above them.
Not only had collieries and other properties to be sold to the best advantage, not only was I afflicted by constant interviews with Messrs.
Dunsmuir --the proprietor of the Wellington Collieries, a few miles north of Nanaimo--over the new railway from Victoria to Nanaimo, constructed, with Government aid, by himself and Mr.