meaning of coal
1. A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
2. A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
3. To burn to charcoal; to char.
4. To mark or delineate with charcoal.
5. To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
6. To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
7. A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.
8. A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printers ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series.
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