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coal seam

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noun

a bed of coal.

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Nearby words

coal oil, coal pit, coal pot, coal sack, coal scuttle, coal seam, coal tar, coal tit, coal-tar creosote, coal-tar pitch, coala

Origin of coal seam

First recorded in 1840–50

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for coal seam

The mining engineer, Monsieur Arnaud, was of opinion that on sinking deeper into the coal-seam a better quality would be met with.
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