colliery

English
WOTD – 18 June 2009
Daw Mill colliery in the United Kingdom.

Etymology

From collier +‎ -y.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/

Noun

colliery (plural collieries)

  1. (Britain) 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.

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