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channel coal en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, misconstruction, uncountable) Misconstruction of cannel coal.
    • Of channel coal there has been imported into the States from England 17,767 tons, against 27,641 tons in 1871. 1873, Great Britain. Foreign Office, Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls on the Manufactures, ..., page 1256:
    • Between 25,000 and 30,000 bushels of channel coal were mined from three pits in Phelps and Crawford counties and hauled to the Works […] 1964, James D. Norris, Frontier Iron: The Maramec Iron Works, 1826-1876, page 112:
    • When this coal is put into the fire, it crackles, and separates into laminae, as the channel coal does into irregular pieces, burns for some time with a heavy flame, becomes red-hot, and gradually consumes to light white ashes. 1772, Philosophical Transactions, page 265: