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collierycol‧lie‧ry /ˈkɒljəri $ ˈkɑːl-/ noun (plural collieries) [countable] British English   - A young lodge leader in Barnsley took a party of us down his colliery.
- Further investment is needed at the colliery, which reopened last year when 160 miners invested £10,000 each to form the consortium.
- Her home overlooks the pithead and the haunting winding gear of a colliery where an explosion once killed over thirty miners.
- I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager's certificate.
- The two-year subsidy is intended to stave off colliery closures until after the general election.
- This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc.
- We have also lost jobs in the cement industry and there are question marks over the Point of Ayr colliery.
► Gas/Coal/Oilanthracite, nounblack gold, nounblowout, nounboost, nounbunker, nounbutane, nounCalor gas, nounclinker, nouncoal, nouncoal bunker, nouncoalfield, nouncoal gas, nouncoal hole, nouncoalhouse, nounCoalite, coalman, nouncoal mine, nouncoke, nouncolliery, nouncrude, noundrill, verbdrilling platform, nounflue, nounfossil fuel, noungallery, noungas, noungasholder, noungaslight, noungasman, noungas meter, noungasometer, noungasworks, noungusher, nouninternal combustion engine, nounlead-free, adjectivelignite, nounmethane, nounnatural gas, nounoctane, nounoil, nounoil-bearing, adjectiveoilfield, nounoil-fired, adjectiveoilman, nounoil rig, nounoil slick, nounoil tanker, nounoil well, nounOPEC, nounopencast, adjectiveparaffin, nounpilot light, nounpit pony, nounpremium, nounpropane, nounrig, nounroughneck, nounsolid fuel, nounstrike, nounwell, nounwick, nounwildcat, verb NOUN► manager· He had been promised that once he had obtained his colliery manager's certificate, he would be made an assistant manager. a coal mine and the buildings around it |