stove coal

noun

1. anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 inches (about 4 to 6 centimeters), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stove coal¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

By substituting your red ashes from stove coal, an inferior representative of the foregoing paste will be produced.

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I was told that an excellent quality of stove coal existed in the vicinity, and would be used whenever it proved most economical.

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Large lizards customarily ate furnace coal, middle-sized lizards ate stove coal.

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Never again would the gynesaurus feed on stove coal plucked, ripe, from the branches whereon it grew.

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He pressed it in egg-shaped moulds, and has succeeded in making capital stove coal from it.

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