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

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Example Sentences

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stove coal

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 Barkham Burroughs

The same method of averaging prices of chestnut and stove coal by dealers was followed for October, 1914, as for October, 1919.

From The Cost of Living Among Wage-Earners Fall River, Massachusetts, October, 1919, Research Report Number 22, November, 1919 by National Industrial Conference Board

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

From Concerning Sally by William John Hopkins

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 Kirk Monroe

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

From The Son of his Father by Ridgwell Cullum

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