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coalcutters

coalcutters is the plural of coalcutter.

Meaning of coalcutter

Noun

coalcutter (plural coalcutters)

  1. A device for cutting coal out of the rock face in a coal mine.
    • One was to a coalcutterman who was caught and mutilated by the coalcutter picks whilst the jib was being withdrawn from under the coal.1949, Great Britain Ministry of Fuel and Power, Reports of H.M. Inspectors of Mines Under the Coal Mines Act, 1911

Questions about coalcutters

What is coalcutters the plural of?
Coalcutters is the plural of coalcutter.

Words near coalcutters in the dictionary

  1. coalcart
  2. Coalcliff
  3. coalcutter
  4. coalcutterman
  5. coalcuttermen
  6. coalcutters
  7. Coaldale
  8. coaldealer
  9. coaldealers
  10. coaldust
  11. coaldusts

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