colliery

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/
• (America) IPA: /ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/

Noun

colliery (plural collieries)

1. (British) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VII, p. 91,

     From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]

2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

Translations

• French: houillère (in Belgium: charbonnage)
• German: Untertagekohlenbergwerk, Kohlenzeche
• Italian: miniera di carbone
• Russian: у́гольная ша́хта

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