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

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 Hopkins, William John

Bill had men hauling things till after dark—bed, stove, coal.

From Plays by Glaspell, Susan

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

Large lizards customarily ate furnace coal, middle-sized lizards ate stove coal.

From Concerning Sally by Hopkins, William John