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• Beyond the slag was a colliery with its machinery and smoking chimney, making the whole area look grim and austere.2011, Vivienne Dockerty, A Woman Undefeated, page 54. From the entry slag
• After Aulnoye the route lay through the colliery area and past Maubeuge to Jeumont, on the Belgian border.1961 March, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146. From the entry unhook
• In addition the Marquess built a brickworks adjacent to the colliery, and also greatly improved the harbour to encourage coastal shipping.1960 January, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 55. From the entry encourage
• As the Lothian Plain is reached, collieries and slag heaps begin to appear, although much of the surrounding country remains unspoiled.1952 January, H. A. Vallance, “The Waverley Route”, in Railway Magazine, page 16. From the entry Lothian
• It’s like death itself, a dead colliery.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, pages 124-125. From the entry coppy
• All the collieries were closed, and, with the exception of passenger traffic there was little activity in transportation.1912 January 19, “Imperial Taiwan Railways”, in Railway Age Gazette, volume 52, number 3, New York, page 94. From the entry Hsinchu
• The 12 were repairing a shaft at a colliery in Henan province's Baofeng county when an explosion tore through the pit on Friday.2007 September 4, “Rescuers pull 12 bodies from China coal mine”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2023, Latest Crisis. From the entry Baofeng
• At the Pingtingshan colliery in Honan province, for example, when more than seven thousand miners left for Peking, the output of coal declined.1972, Stanley Karnow, Mao and China: Inside China's Cultural Revolution, Penguin Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 268. From the entry Pingtingshan
• Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands.1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for…. From the entry amorphous
• The full capacity, however, requires a hopper of a size that takes the wagon body up to 11ft 11½in above rail level, which would foul many existing colliery screens.1963 July, “News and Comment: The future of coal by rail”, in Modern Railways, page 5. From the entry foul
• Having previously obtained permission of a viewer, or some other person concerned in the colliery, a small hand lanthorn must be provided, a light being necessary for each person.1944 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “An Ancient Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 275, text from early 19th century. From the entry cloath
• It was a handsome old stucco hall, very elegantly appointed, for Winter was a bachelor and prided himself on his style; but the place was beset by collieries.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter X, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 151. From the entry appoint

Meaning of colliery

1. noun An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
2. noun A facility that supplies coal.

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How do you use colliery in a sentence?

Colliery is used as a noun. For example: “Beyond the slag was a colliery with its machinery and smoking chimney, making the whole area look grim and austere.”

What is a short sentence with colliery?

“It’s like death itself, a dead colliery.”

What does colliery mean?

Colliery means an underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.