Seacoal
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold. uncountable
"October 9, 1677. "John Thompson of Setauket has a permit to go to Flushing and other parts of Long Island to search for sea-coal, of which he hath probable information.""
- 2 coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times). Southern-England, historical, uncountable
"[…] and then of Sea-Coal and other necessary Fewel, fit for the working or melting of these Metalls; […]"
- 3 coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives. US, historical, uncountable
- 4 coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.; Such coal used in foundry practice, intermixed with foundry sand or applied in a layer on its face, to modify the behavior of the molten metal. US, historical, uncountable
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More examples"October 9, 1677. "John Thompson of Setauket has a permit to go to Flushing and other parts of Long Island to search for sea-coal, of which he hath probable information.""
Etymology
From sea + coal.
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