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colliery
/ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/
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What does colliery mean?
noun
- An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
- A facility that supplies coal.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/
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“Mother, Miss Jordan was down to-day, and she said my sketch of a colliery at work was beautiful.”
The frequency of disastrous colliery explosions induced me to give my attention to an improved method for ventilating coal mines.
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After leaving school, he was employed for two years as a gig boy on one of the winding engines at the Govan colliery.
Even after about twelve years' effort, the condensing steam-engine was only beginning, though half-heartedly, to be taken up and employed by colliery proprietors and cotton manufacturers.
We lay at Leeds, a dingy large town; and through very bad black roads, (for the whole country is a colliery, or a quarry,) we went to Kirkstall Abbey, where are vast Saxon ruins, in a most picturesque situation, on the banks of a river that falls into a cascade among rich meadows, hills, and woods: it belongs to Lord Cardigan: his father pulled down a large house here '.