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colliery Definition

col·liery ()

noun pl. -·lier·ies

Chiefly Brit. a coal mine and its buildings, equipment, etc.

Etymology: collier + -y

colliery Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • neighbor: The inhabitants, however, find employment in the neighboring collieries.
  • sink: The DMCC went on to sink a further colliery, Cadeby Main, in 1889.
  • serve: The canal once served 30 collieries in the 19th.
  • operate: A number of Collieries operated in Abernant, many of which were opened originally by the Aberdare Iron Company.

Preposition: in

district: One of the large number of collieries in the district was called the Diamond Colliery.

Adjective modifier

  • Cambrian: Photograph taken at the ceremony to cut the first sod of the Cambrian Colliery No 4 Pit.
  • former: Adjacent to the former colliery lies the Rugeley Power Station.
  • nearby: Stone corners mark the former entrance to Hemingfield Basin, which served the nearby colliery.
  • extensive: By the late 19th century there were extensive collieries in Talke, mainly belonging to the Talk o ' the Hill Colliery Company.
  • numerous: His actual earnings in the case first quoted, and in numerous other collieries, are even less than they were before.
  • various: There were however at least six other narrow gage inclines at various collieries and perhaps more have gone unrecorded.

Modifies a noun

  • spoil: Perhaps colliery spoil is polluting the water at the bottom end of the lake.
  • shale: A sample of about 30kg of the colliery shale was obtained.
  • fireman: A married man of Birch View, Edge Green, Ashton-in-Makerfield who was the colliery fireman.
  • proprietor: Some years ago the deceased was a colliery proprietor near Wolverhampton, where he amassed considerable wealth.
  • heap: Three Sisters Recreation area Large Recreation Area reclaimed from three huge colliery spoil heaps - hence the name.
  • explosion: John On 25th May 1812 there occurred the first great colliery explosion for which we have anything approaching really accurate records.

Noun used with modifier

  • coal: Others stayed away, finding work in the South Wales coalfield where the new steam coal collieries were opening up in the southern valleys.
  • steam: Others stayed away, finding work in the South Wales coalfield where the new steam coal collieries were opening up in the southern valleys.
  • phase: Gelli, on the other hand, is primarily a later, 2nd phase colliery settlement, dating from the late 1870s.