colliery

Etymology

From collier + -y.

noun

  1. (Britain) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
    From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […] 1938, Xavier Herbert, “Chapter VII”, in Capricornia, page 91
  2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

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