coal
/koʊl/ verb C2- To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).
- To supply with coal. · to coal a steamer
- To be converted to charcoal.
- To burn to charcoal; to char.
- To mark or delineate with charcoal.
He/she/it coals · Past coaled · Past participle coaled · -ing form coaling
Verb forms
- Base form
- coal
- He/she/it
- coals
- Past
- coaled
- Past participle
- coaled
- -ing form
- coaling
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One of the seconds went for a lantern in a coal-barge near, and by its light they examined the weapons.
And as bees cannot live when their stings are broken that was the end of the black bees, and they lay scattered thick about the Woodman, like little heaps of fine coal.
The Wicked Witch was so angry when she saw her black bees in little heaps like fine coal that she stamped her foot and tore her hair and gnashed her teeth.
I have heard him talk of the coal and iron districts.
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