rice coal

American  

noun

1. anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/16 to 5/16 inch (about 0.5 to 0.8 centimeter).

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Example Sentences

The currency’s climb followed retaliatory tariffs by Ankara against US goods including rice, coal and cars.

From The Guardian

In addition, rice coal, a popular size for home use, becomes scarce in the winter.

From Washington Times

Everywhere the foreshore is always crowded with a fleet of native junks, displaying half mast be it a bundle of wood, a rice measure or a coal scoop, to show that their cargoes consisting of wood, rice, coal, etc., are for sale.

From Project Gutenberg

Iron ore is one of the heavy materials which are handled in a works of this kind, and rice coal, owing to the fact that it is so slippery on the shovel, is one of the lightest materials.

From Project Gutenberg

And it was found on studying the rule-of-thumb plan at the Bethlehem Steel Company, where each shoveler owned his own shovel, that he would frequently go from shoveling ore, with a load of about 30 pounds per shovel, to handling rice coal, with a load on the same shovel of less than 4 pounds.

From Project Gutenberg