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

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

It burns with smoke and soot, and leaves a residuum of a coaly substance.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph

Now, the most general change of this kind is in consequence of evaporation, or the distillation of their more volatile parts, by which oily substances become bituminous, and bituminous substances become coaly.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James

I looked at the customary coaly vapour flying aft, but was unenlightened.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund