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splint coal
[Cf. splint n. 8.]
Coal with a more or less splintery fracture; orig. a less bituminous variety of Scotch cannel coal; now chiefly, a hard and highly bituminous coal burning with great heat.
α1789T. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 109 In this line the splent coal, etc. has been worked. 1801Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) Suppl. II. 231/2 A specimen of the slaty kind [of cannel coal] from Airshire, called splent coal. 1815Aikin Min. (ed. 2) 61 Candle Coal. Cannel Coal. Splent Coal.
β1839Ure Dict. Arts 963, I found good splint coal of the Glasgow field to have a specific gravity of 1·266. 1861Sir W. Fairbairn Iron 75 It is well known that the anthracite and splint coal can be used most effectively and economically with the hot-blast.
attrib.1887P. M'Neill Blawearie 92 We remember..traversing one [mine] in the splint coal seam barely two and a half feet wide. |