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sea-coal

n. (alternative spelling of seacoal English)

Usage examples of "sea-coal".

Katherine looked about her with horror and distaste, her eyes beginning to smart with the effects of smoke from the sea-coal fires, around which felons huddled for warmth.

Sitting beside this crumbling sea-coal fire, Here in the city's ceaseless roar and din, Far from the brambly paths I used to know, Far from the rustling brooks that slip and shine Where the Neponset alders take their glow, I share the tremulous sense of bud and briar And inarticulate ardors of the vine.

Orchards gave apples and pears for ciders, bees made honey for mead, even the bogs provided berries, wild herbs, and peat to supplement the wood and charcoal and sea-coal shipped into Dublin from other lands.