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Colliery

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Noun

1. colliery, pit

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

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Colliery

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noun plural -lieries
mainly British
a coal mine

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Colliery

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nounWord forms: plural ˈcollieries
Chiefly British
a coal mine and its buildings, equipment, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Colliery

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n. pl. col·lier·ies
A coal mine together with its physical plant and outbuildings.

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