splint coaln.
Coal with a more or less splintery fracture; originally a less bituminous variety of Scotch cannel coal; now chiefly, a hard and highly bituminous coal burning with great heat.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun]
coal1253
sea-coal1253
pit-coal1483
cannel1541
earth coala1552
horse coal1552
Newcastle coal1552
stone-coal1585
cannel coal1587
parrot1594
burn-coal1597
lithanthrax1612
stony coal1617
Welsh coala1618
land-coala1661
foot coal1665
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black coal1713
culm1742
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Bovey coal1761
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mineral coal1785
splint1789
splint coal1789
jet coal1794
anthracite1797
wood-coal1799
blind-coal1802
black diamond1803
silk-coal1803
glance-coal1805
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Welsh stone-coal1808
soft1811
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Wallsend1821
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paper coal1833
steam-coal1850
peat-coal1851
cherry-coal1853
household1854
sinter coal1854
oil coal1856
raker1857
Kilkenny coal1861
Pottery coal1867
silkstone1867
block coal1871
admiralty1877
rattlejack1877
bunker1883
fusain1883
smitham1883
bunker coal1885
triping1886
trolley coal1890
kibble1891
sea-borne1892
jet1893
steam1897
sack coal1898
Welsh1898
navigation coal1900
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > splintery coal
splint1789
splint coal1789
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β. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 963 I found good splint coal of the Glasgow field to have a specific gravity of 1·266.1861 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.attributive.1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 92 We remember..traversing one [mine] in the splint coal seam barely two and a half feet wide.1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 109 In this line the splent coal, etc. has been worked.
1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 231/2 A specimen of the slaty kind [of cannel coal] from Airshire, called splent coal.
1815 A. Aikin Man. Mineral. (ed. 2) 61 Candle Coal. Cannel Coal. Splent Coal.
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