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

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stove coal

I was told that an excellent quality of stove coal existed in the vicinity, and would be used whenever it proved most economical.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace

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

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

Both nut and stove coal is used in this heater, and in the severest winter weather it burns not more than a common hodful in twenty-four hours.

From Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure by Falconer, William

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

From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell