Dictionary

colliery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/ (US)

Etymology

From collier + -y.

Meanings

1. (UK) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
   • From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […] 1938, Xavier Herbert, “Chapter VII”, in Capricornia, page 91:
   • Sir Geoffrey, Clifford's father, was intensely ridiculous, chopping down his trees, and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war [...] From the rather dismal rooms at Wragby she heard the rattle-rattle of the screens at the pit, the puff of the winding-engine, the clink-clink of shunting trucks, and the hoarse little whistle of the colliery locomotives. 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

Forms

Deriveds

Colliery Row · Blackhall Colliery · Boldon Colliery · Shotton Colliery · Easington Colliery · Cornsay Colliery

Translations (23)

gd mèinn-ghuail (underground coal mine) · ja 地下炭鉱施設 (facility that supplies coal) · hu szénbánya (underground coal mine) · de Kohlenzeche (underground coal mine) · sh ру̑днӣк угља (underground coal mine) · bg каменовъглена мина (underground coal mine) · ru у́гольная ша́хта (underground coal mine) · cy glofa (underground coal mine) · nl kolenmijn (underground coal mine) · ga mianach guail (underground coal mine) · fi hiilikaivos (underground coal mine) · hy քարածխահանք (underground coal mine) · it miniera di carbone (underground coal mine) · fr charbonnage (underground coal mine) · de Untertagekohlenbergwerk (underground coal mine) · fr houillère (underground coal mine) · ja 地下炭鉱 (underground coal mine) · ga gualcha (underground coal mine) · sv kolgruva (underground coal mine) · mk јагленоко́п (underground coal mine) · sh rȗdnīk uglja (underground coal mine) · cs uhelný důl (underground coal mine) · gl mina de carbón (underground coal mine)