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stove coal

noun

  1. anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 inches (about 4 to 6 centimeters), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.


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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of stove coal1

First recorded in 1880–85
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If she has come down from Seattle they'd get plenty cordwood or, if they wanted it, stove coal there, and I guess a skipper wouldn't waste a fair wind like this one to save two or three dollars.

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Large lizards customarily ate furnace coal, middle-sized lizards ate stove coal.

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Never again would the gynesaurus feed on stove coal plucked, ripe, from the branches whereon it grew.

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Snake's Fall could supply the whole—not half—world with high-grade stove coal.

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Say, I guess it's true I had in my mind a vision of the glinting summer sun, tinting the coal heaps with its wonderful, golden, ripening rays—though I guess it would be some work ripening stove coal—but as to my ever getting there—well, that just depended on the trail I happened to take.

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