coal field
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of coal field
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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The area includes an abandoned coal field where two underground fires, fueled by coal deposits, have slowly burned over the years.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
The meeting room upstairs at the Ollerton colliery welfare building in the Nottingham-Midlands coal field looked like a converted high school gymnasium.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the money will be used in the development of a promising new coal field in Australia, which represents Utah's largest single undertaking up to now.
From Time Magazine Archive
Europe's major coal field lies roughly in a great arc.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the anthracite coal field I saw a dozen Slovaks just arrived from Hungary, but persuaded by their unionized precursors not to take the places of strikers.
From Races and Immigrants in America by Commons, John R. (John Rogers)
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