colliery

English

WOTD – 18 June 2009

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Etymology

From collier +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/

Noun

colliery (plural collieries)

1. (British) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, “Chapter VII”, in Capricornia‎, page 91:

     From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]

2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

Derived terms

• Blackhall Colliery
• Boldon Colliery
• Colliery Row
• Cornsay Colliery
• Shotton Colliery

Translations

underground coal mine

Armenian: քարածխահանք (hy) (kʻaracxahankʻ) Bulgarian: каменовъглена мина (kamenovǎglena mina) Czech: uhelný (cs) důl (cs) m Dutch: kolenmijn (nl) c Finnish: hiilikaivos (fi) French: houillère (fr) f, (Belgium) charbonnage (fr) m German: Untertagekohlenbergwerk n, Kohlenzeche f Hungarian: szénbánya (hu) Irish: gualcha f, mianach guail m Italian: miniera di carbone f Japanese: 地下炭鉱 (chika tankō) Macedonian: јагленоко́п m (jaglenokóp) Russian: у́гольная ша́хта f (úgolʹnaja šáxta) Scottish Gaelic: mèinn-ghuail f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ру̑днӣк угља m Roman: rȗdnīk uglja m Swedish: kolgruva (sv) c Welsh: glofa (cy) f

facility that supplies coal

Japanese: 地下炭鉱施設 (chika tankō shisetsu)