coal
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
coal/kəʊl/
▶noun a combustible black rock consisting mainly of carbonized plant matter and used as fuel.
■ Brit. a piece of coal.
▶verb provide with or extract coal.– phrases
coals to Newcastle something supplied to a place where it is already plentiful.
haul (also N. Amer. rake) someone over the coals reprimand someone severely.
coals to Newcastle something supplied to a place where it is already plentiful.
haul (also N. Amer. rake) someone over the coals reprimand someone severely.
– derivatives
coaly adjective.
coaly adjective.
– origin OE col (in the senses ‘glowing ember’ and ‘charred remnant’), of Gmc origin.
'coal' also found in these Oxford entries:
anthracene
- anthracite
- anthracnose
- anthrax
- bituminous coal
- black diamond
- black lung
- brattice
- briquette
- brown coal
- cannel coal
- carbon
- Carboniferous
- carbonnade
- carbuncle
- charcoal
- cinder
- clinker
- coaler
- coalface
- coalfield
- coal gas
- coal measures
- coal tar
- coal tit
- cob
- coke
- cole tit
- collie
- collier
- colliery
- corf
- cresol
- cresset
- Culm
- deputy
- drift
- dust
- ECSC
- ethylene
- firedamp
- fluidized bed
- fossil fuel
- fuel
- hard coal
- haul
- haulier
- heavy oil
- hew
