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coalface

[ UK /kˈə‍ʊlfe‍ɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the part of a coal seam that is being cut

How To Use coalface In A Sentence

  • This is industrial Lanarkshire where for generations hard men have been reared at the coalface, bound together in friendships forged in a dirty and often dangerous working environment.
  • Academics will be working at the coalface alongside the doctors.
  • Mr Wood said most of the damage was done in the 1970s when he was working as a coalface worker and tunneller.
  • Developing country companies are innovating close to the 'coalface' of global health problems, making appropriateness, translation, uptake and affordability of the resulting solutions more likely." says Dr. Peter Singer, Director of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • We, the users, are the coalface, the goldmine, the well. Times, Sunday Times
  • The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school, in which children can try out the desks and writing slates and play games of the period.
  • More than 200 miners returned to the coalface yesterday after a colliery's future was assured for the next 20 years.
  • The Nova Scotian miners didn't get paid until they started cutting the coal, so each day they'd begin their shift by running a mile and a half under the sea to the coalface.
  • Management decided it was unsafe for miners to continue working as the coalface was hit by falls of rock and debris from the roof, and flooding.
  • The revolution in coalface working methods brought about by mechanised power loading techniques.
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