Coal vs. Hurrier

Coalnoun

(uncountable) A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.

Hurriernoun

A person who hurries.

Coalnoun

(countable) A piece of coal used for burning. Note that in British English either of the following examples could be used, whereas the latter would be more common in American English.

‘Put some coals on the fire.’; ‘Put some coal on the fire.’;

Hurriernoun

A young boy or girl employed in a coal mine to drag baskets or small wagons full of coal from the coal face where it was mined, up to the surface.

Coalnoun

(countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.

Hurriernoun

One who hurries or urges.

Coalnoun

(countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.

‘Just as the camp-fire died down to just coals, with no flames to burn the marshmallows, someone dumped a whole load of wood on, so I gave up and went to bed.’;

Coalnoun

Charcoal.

Coalverb

(intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).

Coalverb

(transitive) To supply with coal.

‘to coal a steamer’;

Coalverb

(intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.

Coalverb

(transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.

Coalverb

(transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Coalnoun

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

Coalnoun

A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

Coalverb

To burn to charcoal; to char.

‘Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces.’;

Coalverb

To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Coalverb

To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

Coalverb

To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.

Coalnoun

fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

Coalnoun

a hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire

Coalverb

burn to charcoal;

‘Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything’;

Coalverb

supply with coal

Coalverb

take in coal;

‘The big ship coaled’;

Coalnoun

a combustible black or dark brown rock consisting chiefly of carbonized plant matter, found mainly in underground seams and used as fuel

‘a coal fire’; ‘two bags of coal’;

Coalnoun

a piece of coal

‘men were loading coals into a wagon’;

Coalnoun

a red-hot piece of coal or other material in a fire

‘the glowing coals’;

Coalverb

provide with a supply of coal

‘ships had to be coaled and supplied’;

Coalverb

mine or extract coal

‘we have now finished coaling at the site’;

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.