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coal field

noun

  1. an area containing significant coal deposits.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coal field1

First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences

Fig. 803 is an instance of a convex coal-field exhibited in Staffordshire, at the Castle-hill, close to the town of Dudley.

From its situation and importance this coal-field is better known than any other in India.

The area of this coal field is estimated at about thirty-six thousand square miles.

In the centre of the coal-field is an elevated moorland tract formed of the grits and shales of the Millstone Grit series.

We were now in the great coal-field of France; but the miners had fled, and left the plain doubly desolate.

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