colliery
pronunciation
How to pronounce colliery in British English:
UK [ˈkɒliəri]
How to pronounce colliery in American English:
US [ˈkɑliəri]
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- Noun:
- a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
Word Origin
- colliery
- colliery: see coal
- colliery (n.)
- 1630s, "coal mine," see collier + -y (1).
Example
- 1. 4 / 10 The moxinpo colliery in chongqing .
- 2. Scargill became a miner after leaving school at 15 , working at woolley colliery from 1953 .
- 3. 6 / 10 A worker pushes a tram at a colliery in leshan city , sichuan province .
- 4. This model was built to his design by francis thompson at a colliery in derbyshire , uk , in 1791 and is the oldest newcomen-type engine to survive complete and largely unaltered .
- 5. Liu owned a coal mine and , according to agencies in china , used mobsters to force other colliery owners to sell him cheap coal .