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seacoal

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Synonyms: sea coal, sea-coal

Antonyms: sea coal, sea-coal

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Noun

  1. {{U|coal}} from the [[sea]]: [[mineral coal]] that washes up from the sea onto beaches.
  2. {{lb|en|historical|chiefly|Southern England}} 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).
  3. {{lb|en|historical|technical|chiefly|U.S.}} Coal to be used at [[sea]]: a certain class of [[mineral coal]], especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.

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