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white coal

noun

  1. Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.


white coal

noun

  1. water, esp when flowing and providing a potential source of usable power
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of white coal1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

There is surely enough "white coal" rushing by us to turn the wheels of the factories of a continent.

"White coal" will, Bailey Willis says, make a great industrial region of it, and plant an urban life in it.

This would be a plan for the wedding of the stream and the mine, the white coal with the black.

Hence the waterfalls are sometimes termed the "white coal" of that country.

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