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Colliery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A coal mine together with its physical plant and outbuildings.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.

n. A facility that supplies coal.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

n. The coal trade.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A place where coal is dug; a coal-mine or -pit, with the requisite apparatus for working it.

n. The coal-trade.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

Word Usage

"Brass bands known as colliery bands were the local entertainment for the coal miners of Durham in Northern England, where the collieries mining operations are now defunct."

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work workplace

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