seacoal (English, noun)
expansion: seacoal (uncountable)
Senses:
glosses: coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold.
tags: uncountable
glosses: coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times).
tags: Southern-England
historical
uncountable
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.
tags: US
historical
uncountable
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.
Such coal used in foundry practice, intermixed with foundry sand or applied in a layer on its face, to modify the behavior of the molten metal.
tags: US
historical
uncountable
Forms:
form: sea coal
tags: alternative
form: sea-coal
tags: alternative