channel coal

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Noun

channel coal (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of cannel coal
    • 1772, Philosophical Transactions, page 265:
      When this coal is put into the fire, it crackles, and separates into laminae, as the channel coal does into irregular pieces, burns for some time with a heavy flame, becomes red-hot, and gradually consumes to light white ashes.
    • 1873, Great Britain. Foreign Office, Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls on the Manufactures, ..., page 1256:
      Of channel coal there has been imported into the States from England 17,767 tons, against 27,641 tons in 1871.
    • 1964, James D. Norris, Frontier Iron: The Maramec Iron Works, 1826-1876, page 112:
      Between 25,000 and 30,000 bushels of channel coal were mined from three pits in Phelps and Crawford counties and hauled to the Works []