coal - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'coal' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Coal

[ n.]

- A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
- A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

2 . Coal

[ v. i.]

- To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.

3 . Coal

[ v. t.]

- To burn to charcoal; to char.
- To mark or delineate with charcoal.
- To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

Meaning of 'coal' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . coal

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- take in coal

Example in sentence:

The big ship coaled

Meaning (2):
- burn to charcoal

Example in sentence:

Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything

Nearby Words:

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