Colliery Synonyms

kŏlyə-rē
A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pit

Words Related to Colliery

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. ironworks
  2. collieries
  3. colleries
  4. Aberpergwm
  5. steelworks
  6. bickershaw
  7. gartsherrie
  8. brickworks
  9. Tilmanstone
  10. Kellingley
  11. muirkirk
  12. Mossfield
  13. Kemberton
  14. coal-mine
  15. butterley

Colliery Sentence Examples

  • The laying out of a colliery, after the coal has been won, by sinkings or levels, may be accomplished in various ways, according to the nature of the coal, its thickness and dip, and the extent of ground to be worked.

  • In a large colliery where the shafts are situated near the centre of the field, and the workings extend on all sides, both to the dip and rise, the drawing roads for the coal may be of three different kinds - (r) levels driven at right angles to the dip, suitable for horse roads, (2) rise ways, known as jinny roads, jig-brows, or up-brows, which, when of sufficient slope, may be used as self-acting planes, i.e.

  • One of the most important branches of colliery work is the management of the ventilation, involving as it does the supply of fresh air to the men working in the pit, as well as the removal of inflammable gases that may be given off by the coal.

  • The quantity of air required for a large colliery depends upon the number of men employed, as for actual respiration from zoo to 200 cub.

  • Meyer at the Shamrock colliery in Westphalia, where a body of men are kept in systematic training for its use at a special rescue station.

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