Collieries
[kɔljəriz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Colliery
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Examples
- A bold attempt was made at Birmingham, in 1826, to bring gas from the collieries, at a distance of ten miles from the town. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It took into account the collieries, mines, canals, marshes, fens, and the varieties of soil in relation to the substrata. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In forming the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the guage of the railways in the collieries was adopted, and the width between the rails was made 4 feet 8? inches. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- George Stephenson had worked out a somewhat similar safety-lamp at about the same time, and his was used in the collieries around Newcastle. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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