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" (9 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
22 translations across 17 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- քարածխահանք noun (underground coal mine)
Bulgarian
1 entries- каменовъглена мина noun (underground coal mine)
Czech
1 entries- uhelný důl noun (underground coal mine)
Dutch
1 entries- kolenmijn noun (underground coal mine)
Finnish
1 entries- hiilikaivos noun (underground coal mine)
French
2 entries- charbonnage noun (underground coal mine)
- houillère noun (underground coal mine)
German
2 entries- Kohlenzeche noun (underground coal mine)
- Untertagekohlenbergwerk noun (underground coal mine)
Hungarian
1 entries- szénbánya noun (underground coal mine)
Irish
2 entries- gualcha noun (underground coal mine)
- mianach guail noun (underground coal mine)
Italian
1 entries- miniera di carbone noun (underground coal mine)
Japanese
2 entries- 地下炭鉱 noun (underground coal mine)
- 地下炭鉱施設 noun (facility that supplies coal)
Macedonian
1 entries- јагленоко́п noun (underground coal mine)
Russian
1 entries- у́гольная ша́хта noun (underground coal mine)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mèinn-ghuail noun (underground coal mine)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- rȗdnīk uglja noun (underground coal mine)
- ру̑днӣк угља noun (underground coal mine)
Swedish
1 entries- kolgruva noun (underground coal mine)
Welsh
1 entries- glofa noun (underground coal mine)
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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