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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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stove coal1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
By substituting your red ashes from stove coal, an inferior representative of the foregoing paste will be produced.
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I was told that an excellent quality of stove coal existed in the vicinity, and would be used whenever it proved most economical.
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Large lizards customarily ate furnace coal, middle-sized lizards ate stove coal.
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Never again would the gynesaurus feed on stove coal plucked, ripe, from the branches whereon it grew.
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He pressed it in egg-shaped moulds, and has succeeded in making capital stove coal from it.
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