coaly

American  

[koh-lee] / ˈkoʊ li /

adjective

coalier, coaliest

1. of, resembling, or containing coal.

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Etymology

Origin of coaly

First recorded in 1555–65; coal + -y ¹

Example Sentences

She could smell coaly deposits on the surfaces, cordite, paraffin, like fireworks in the park on bonfire night, or northern streets in December.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013

One coaly giant yelled, "That's the lot," when the last batch came up, and then the crowd went mad, weeping, cheering, dancing mad.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

While others serve the seething brass, and o'er the herbage strown Set coaly morsels 'neath the spit, and roast the inner meat.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

I'm told Broomielaw means 'beloved green place,' so it can't always have been the coaly hole it is now.

From The Setons by Douglas, O.

There are many specks of coaly matter disseminated through it, and some minute scales of mica, and perhaps of quartz.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John