colliery

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Daw Mill colliery in the United Kingdom.

Etymology

From collier +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/
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  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/

Noun

colliery (plural collieries)

  1. (British) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, “Chapter VII”, in Capricornia, page 91:
      From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself []
  2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

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