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stove coal
noun
- anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 inches (about 4 to 6 centimeters), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
Word History and Origins
Origin of stove coal1
Example Sentences
If she has come down from Seattle they'd get plenty cordwood or, if they wanted it, stove coal there, and I guess a skipper wouldn't waste a fair wind like this one to save two or three dollars.
Large lizards customarily ate furnace coal, middle-sized lizards ate stove coal.
Never again would the gynesaurus feed on stove coal plucked, ripe, from the branches whereon it grew.
Snake's Fall could supply the whole—not half—world with high-grade stove coal.
Say, I guess it's true I had in my mind a vision of the glinting summer sun, tinting the coal heaps with its wonderful, golden, ripening rays—though I guess it would be some work ripening stove coal—but as to my ever getting there—well, that just depended on the trail I happened to take.
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