seacoal
Meanings
noun
- Coal from the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches.
- 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).
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
From sea + coal.
Synonyms
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