cannel coal

American  

[kan-l] / ˈkæn l /

noun

1. an oily, compact coal, burning readily and brightly.

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cannel coal British  

/ ˈkænəl /

noun

1. a dull coal having a high volatile content and burning with a smoky luminous flame

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Etymology

Origin of cannel coal

1530–40; cannel from candle (dial. form)

Example Sentences

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cannel coal

On digging a ditch to drain a part of a bog in Maine, U.S., in which peat to a depth of twenty feet had accumulated, a substance similar to cannel coal itself was found.

From The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Martin, Edward A.

Dr. Dee's "show-stone" was a bit of cannel coal.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

No members of the Glasgow Committee were present when either the undisputed Late Celtic comb, or the inscribed, perforated, and disputed pieces of cannel coal were discovered. 

From The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore by Lang, Andrew

What do you think of that bronze one there with the peacock feathers?—say, old man, think of a library—and a cannel coal fire—and a big mahogany desk—and a red-haired girl sitting against that paper!

From Molly Make-Believe by Tittle, Walter

The coal is of the best quality of that kind of brown coal generally called cannel coal, and is occasionally met with in immense seams.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von