coal-heughn.
/ˈkəʊlhjuːx/, U.S. /ˈkoʊlˌhjux/, Scottish English /ˈkolhjux/ Scottish. Now chiefly historical.
A coal mine, (originally perhaps) esp. an opencast one.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > coal-mine > type of
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1414 ( in W. Fraser Bk. Carlaverock (1873) II. 418 In muris, in marras,..in peteerde, in colehuch..and of al vthir proffitis..that pertenis..to the forsaidez landis.
1461 Charter Edinb. Reg. House No. 362 The forsaide landys..wyth..colhewys, petis, tvrfis, mylnys [etc.].
1520 in W. Fraser Memorials Family Wemyss (1888) II. 144 The cole, colehewis, canesalt, and pan malis of the Wester Wemys.
1592 Sc. Acts, 12 Jas. VI (1597) §146 The wicked crime of setting of fire in Coal-heuches.
1655 R. Baillie Disswasive Vindic. 21 This to me was but to move from one errour to another, from the lime-pit to the coal-heugh.
1672 Sc. Acts Chas. II (1820) VIII. 139/2 Lenshers, aqueducts..water workes, and others vsefull and necessar for winning and vpholding of the saids coalls & coallhewghs.
1726 J. Strachey in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 397 They land it [sc. coal] (as at many Coalhews in the Country) on Girls Backs.
1735 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 31) ii. iii. v. 429 Firing Colehughs.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 104 Wherefore should not a coal-heugh be found out in Zetland as well as in Fife?
1879 H. George Progress & Poverty ix. iv. 422 Had Dr. Adam Smith been born in the coal-hews.
1938 Jrnl. Compar. Legisl. & Internat. Law 20 49 A collier had given his bond to work at the Lord of Caprington's coal heughs.
1993 D. Dunnett Unicorn Hunt (1999) i. iii. 29 Berecrofts, ye ken? Him who made a fortune from salt-pans and coalheughs? That's Robin, his grandson.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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