coal miningn.
/ˈkəʊl ˌmʌɪnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkoʊl ˌmaɪnɪŋ/ The action, practice, or occupation of digging for coal.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > for coal
coal-working1708
colliery1708
coal mining1784
1784 Bath Chron. 15 July Coal-mining in this part of the country is very expensive.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 288 Trades in which young persons are engaged in numbers, such as sewing, pin-making, or coal-mining.
1854 Encycl. Brit. VII. 123/1 The uninitiated in coal mining.
1898 A. W. Daw & Z. W. Daw Blasting of Rock xix. 204 H.M. Inspectors of Mines strongly condemn the use of blasting powder in coal mining.
1950 Econ. Jrnl. 60 711 Another extreme view is that alternative industry should fully absorb the labour discharged from the mines and also future accretions of population unable to find employment in coalmining.
1994 Independent on Sunday 21 Aug. (Review Suppl.) 44/3 To start out with the clearest explanation of the technicalities of coalmining..the Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is the place to begin.
2009 P. Glennie & N. Thrift Shaping Day iv. 104 While there was extensive coal mining in Bedminster and Kingswood.., much of the mining was done by relatively small-scale operators.
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1807 Morning Chron. 3 Nov. 1/1 Equally so with Coal Mining Companies, the staple article for the nursery of British Seamen would be intirely stopped.
1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 30 Sept. 13/4 The extent of the coal-mining industry in Great Britain.
1914 E. A. Powell End of Trail xiii. 372 Nanaimo..is a coal-mining centre of considerable importance.
1972 Maclean's May 58/1 This one-time coal-mining town, now a lumbering centre.
2010 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 66/1 America's active coal-mining regions—West Virginia and Kentucky in the East, Wyoming and its neighbors in the Great Basin region of the West.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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