stove coal

American  

noun

1. anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 inches (about 4 to 6 centimeters), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.

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Etymology

Origin of stove coal

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Snake's Fall could supply the whole—not half—world with high-grade stove coal.

From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell

By substituting your red ashes from stove coal, an inferior representative of the foregoing paste will be produced.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham

Never again would the gynesaurus feed on stove coal plucked, ripe, from the branches whereon it grew.

From Concerning Sally by Hopkins, William John

He pressed it in egg-shaped moulds, and has succeeded in making capital stove coal from it.

From Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines by Monroe, Kirk

Olga seized the good-sized lumps of stove coal, one after another, and began volleying with a strong overhand throw at the excited animals.

From Janice Day the Young Homemaker by Long, Helen Beecher