coal-holen.
/ˈkəʊlhəʊl/, U.S. /ˈkoʊlˌhoʊl/ 1.
a. A compartment or cellar for storing coal; (also) the place in which fuel is stored on board a steam vessel.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > place in which to store or sell coal
coal cellar1281
coalhouse1332
coal garth1593
coal-hole?1641
coal yard1646
coal fold1704
ree1707
coal shed1718
coal pen1763
coal bunker1837
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > storage room or compartment > coal-bunker
coal-hole1801
coal-holdc1826
coal bunker1837
coal bunk1838
bunker1839
pocket1883
?1641 On Wings of Feare (single sheet) Barnes, Cellers, Cole holes, were their meeting-places.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 8 Feb. (1970) III. 25 All the morning..with the Colliers, removing the Coles out of the old coal-hole into the new one.
1741 H. Fielding Shamela x. 28 I went and hid myself in the Coal-hole.
1797 Anti-Jacobin 20 Nov. 7/1 She whipp'd two Female 'Prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole.
1801 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars with Barbary Powers (1939) 635 One of the men came on the Quarter Deck and Informed Capt. Barron that the water was above the cole, in the Coal Hole.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 657 The types were flung into the coalhole.
1859 S. Smiles Self-help 13 He would give him his passage if he would trim the coals in the coal-hole of the steamer.
1920 M. H. Hewlett In Green Shade 52 If a maid comes to work in my house she can only come in one capacity, which will equally involve my working in hers. She in the kitchen, I in the coalhole or potato patch, 'twill be all one.
1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games iv. 154 There is bound to be some clever-dick who has hidden in a coal-hole and refuses to show himself.
2007 Independent 24 Mar. (Mag.) 28/1 Some people..think we're hopeless because we have a telly in the living room instead of siting it less temptingly in the coalhole.
b. A hole in a pavement with a removable cover, designed for the direct delivery of coal into a coal cellar.
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1746 Dublin Jrnl. 9 Sept. Owen Bryah..was committed to Newgate for stealing Grates over Coal-holes.
1783 European Mag. & London Rev. May 323/2 The loss of a limb, thro' a coal-hole in the pavement being left open.
1854 B. P. Shillaber Life & Sayings Mrs. Partington 56 When you look up..avoid the coal-holes and cellar-ways that are open for your unwary feet.
1895 N.Y. Dramatic News 23 Nov. 4/3 Some of the dramatis personæ disappear as quickly as if they had fallen through a coal hole.
1921 Concrete 19 195/2 Coal hole covers are probably the most prolific source of sidewalk casualties.
1989 Marketing (Nexis) 4 May TBP [= the blonde publicist] promptly vanished from between us, dropping down a coalhole in the street.
2008 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 5 July 24 The coalman was a regular sight up and down the land a generation ago, when he would tip the fuel into the coalhole at the front of terraced town houses.
2. An opening through which coal is introduced into a furnace; a fire-hole. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > opening through which fuel is fed
coal-hole1651
stoke-hole1660
firing door1828
feed-mouth1833
feed-door1872
1651 J. French Art Distillation iii. 83 It must be foure [spans] high; one for the Ash-hole, another above the grate to the middle Coal-hole.
1862 U.S. Patent 35,180 2/1 The mouth or coal-hole..may be placed in the dome, if desired, and pipes or corrugations substituted on the side of the fire-pot.
1915 Iron Age 11 Feb. 378/1 Crucible furnace with coal holes or oil melting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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