colliery
noun
a coal mine, including all buildings and equipment.
collieries
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pluralof colliery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Thousands of men in Goldthorpe and neighbouring village Thurnscoe worked at four local collieries when miners across Britain went on strike in 1984 to fight the National Coal Board's plans to shut pits.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2024
"The collieries put on their own work buses, so that wasn't a problem," he says.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2023
China approved the expansion of hundreds of collieries last year, involving an annual capacity increase of about 420 million tonnes.
From Reuters ● Feb. 28, 2022
In 1984, there were 170 working collieries in Britain, employing more than 190,000 people - but by 2015, they had all closed.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2021
The village of Ferth, where Sir George Tressady had his home and owned the collieries, is a mining village ten miles from Crewe, known as “Talk o’ the Hill.”
From The Lure of the Camera by Charles S. Olcott
