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collieries

collieries is the plural of colliery.

Meaning of colliery

Noun

colliery (plural collieries)

  1. (UK) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
    • Sir Geoffrey, Clifford's father, was intensely ridiculous, chopping down his trees, and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war [...] From the rather dismal rooms at Wragby she heard the rattle-rattle of the screens at the pit, the puff of the winding-engine, the clink-clink of...1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC
  2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

Questions about collieries

What is collieries the plural of?
Collieries is the plural of colliery.

Words near collieries in the dictionary

  1. collied
  2. collielike
  3. collier
  4. Collier County
  5. Collier Street
  6. collieries
  7. colliers
  8. Colliers Wood
  9. Collierville
  10. colliery
  11. Colliery Row

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