broken coal

American  

noun

1. anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 centimeters) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.

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Example Sentences

In the countryside, wide fissures rent the fields, irrigation canals were broken, coal mines caved in.

From Time Magazine Archive

The iron gates that held back the broken coal were quickly shut and the long chutes were empty.

From Burnham Breaker by Greene, Homer

After being dried the grains are mixed with the coal dust, and broken coal pitch is added in the proportion of eight to ten per cent. of the coal.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various

I didn't have far to go; he had been tumbled into a corner with empty collar boxes, a broken coal scuttle, and some fire kindling.

From Observations of a Retired Veteran by Tinsley, Henry C.

In civil life he would have shovelled the broken coal into a "hutch," and "hurled" it away to the shaft.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian