Colliery

Definition: Colliery

Colliery

Noun

1. A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "colliery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Note: Colliery \Col"lier*y\, noun; plural Collieries. [Compare to Coalery, Collier.]. (Websters 1913)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Colliery

Crosswords: Colliery

References

• Wankie Colliery Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Blacklegs: The 1911 Strike at the Scottish Colliery (reference)

• Colliery Closure and Social Change: A Study of a South Wales Mining Valley (reference)

• Development of evaluative framework and review of existing spoil disposal procedures : assessment of alternative colliery spoil disposal options (reference)

• Fire at Michael Colliery, Fife: report on the causes of, and circumstances attending, the fire which occurred at Michael Colliery, Fife, on 9th September, 1967 (reference)

• The Colliery Vicar (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Good-bye to the colliery. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two men drilling in colliery in the Soviet Union. Credit: Library of Congress.

Houses and colliery from a street in Lansford, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Saint Clair (vicinity), Pennsylvania. The ghost town of Lorain near Saint Clair. The P.& R.I.& C. colliery here was closed down eight years ago and all "company houses" excepting two were removed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

minierë qymyrguri (coal mine). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منجم الفحم. (various references)

Bulgarian 

каменовъглена мина (coal mine). (various references)

Czech

jáma (air pocket, hole, pit). (various references)

Danish

overformand (colliery overman, overman, pit overman), mineaffald (attle, burrow, colliery wastes, rubbish), kulminekoksværk (coke oven plant associated with a colliery), kulmineaffald (colliery wastes), koksminedrift (coke oven plant associated with a colliery), koksfremstilling i forbindelse med minedrift (coke oven at pithead, colliery coke oven). (various references)

Dutch

mijnafval (colliery wastes), kooksovenbedrijf bij een mijn (coke oven plant associated with a colliery), brandlei (burnt colliery shale), aan steenkolenmijnen verbonden cokesovenbedrijven (coke oven at pithead, colliery coke oven), aan een steenkolenmijn verbonden cokesovenbedrijf (coke oven at pithead, colliery coke oven). (various references)

Finnish

hiilikaivos (coal-mine). (various references)

French

mine. (various references)

German

kohlenbergwerk (coalmine), Bergwerk (mine). (various references)

Greek 

ανθρακωρυχείο (coal mine, coal pit). (various references)

Hungarian

szénbánya (coal mine, coal pit, delf, delft), szénszállító hajó (coaler, collier), szénkereskedés, kőszénbánya. (various references)

Italian

miniera di carbone (coal mine). (various references)

Manx

meain gheayil (coalmine). (various references)

Pig Latin

ollierycay

Portuguese

mina de carvão (coal pit, coalmine). (various references)

Romanian

minã de cãrbuni (coal mine, coal pit). (various references)

Russian 

каменноугольная копь (coal mine). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ugljenokop (pit). (various references)

Spanish

mina de carbón (coalmine, coalpit). (various references)

Swedish

kolgruva (coal pit, coalmine, coal-mine). (various references)

Turkish

kömür ocağı (coal mine, coalpit). (various references)

Ukrainian

кам'яновугільна копальня. (various references)

Vietnamese 

mỏ than (coal-mine, coal-pit). (various references)

Welsh

glofa. (various references)

Misspellings

"Colliery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Callery, coilier, coleier, colier, Collaer, collary, Colleer, Collery, Colliar, collyrium, Couldery, Kolderie. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: collier.

-2 letters: coiler, collie, ocelli, recoil.

-3 letters: celli, cello, ceorl, colly, coyer, iller, lyric, oiler, oleic, oriel, relic, reoil, riley, rille, roily.

-4 letters: ceil, cell, cero, cire, cloy, coil, coir, cole, coly, core, cory, illy, lice, lier, lily, lire, loci, lore, lory, lyre, oily, orle, oyer, rely, rice, riel, rile, rill, roil, role, roll.

+2 letters: erotically, heroically.

+3 letters: aerobically, oneirically, vectorially.

+4 letters: ceremonially, cholerically, collinearity, commercially, electrolysis, electrolytic, entropically, esoterically, euphorically, exoterically, forensically, hyperbolical, meteorically, neurotically, operatically, periodically, policyholder, reciprocally, rhetorically.

+5 letters: acrylonitrile, allegorically, anaerobically, aperiodically, bimolecularly, categorically, collaterality, correlatively, cryogenically, electrolyzing, embryological, embryonically, ergonomically, geometrically, geotropically, incorporeally, incredulously, isometrically, morphemically, myoelectrical, obstetrically, orthoepically, policyholders, proleptically, prophetically, rheologically, serologically, theoretically.