Colliery

//ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ//

"Colliery" in a Sentence (2 examples)

My great-grandfather began to work in a Welsh colliery when he was only twelve years old.

From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]

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