My great-grandfather began to work in a Welsh colliery when he was only twelve years old.
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Colliery
/ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/
Synonyms for "colliery" (12 found)
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More general
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2 entriesdrift mineshaft mine
Collocations
6 entriescoal minecolliery ownercolliery shaftcolliery workercolliery worksmining operations
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriescolliery ownercolliery worker
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
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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