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colliery

[ UK /kˈɒlɪəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

How To Use colliery In A Sentence

  • The civic society is appealing for people connected with the colliery to come forward with recollections of life at the pit.
  • The Church of Ireland congregation too had good reason to celebrate during 2004 with the Rededication of the Colliery Church after 175 years since it was first consecrated.
  • Clive Brill, the director, has had a good idea for the soundscape which doesn't quite work: the Volsci are Yorkshiremen, and the incidental music is therefore all in colliery brass band style. April Books 3) From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah
  • The grandest, the undermanagers, overmen, engineers and surveyors lived nearest the colliery in streets with names: Thompson, Grant, West View.
  • Robert was born when his father was still an obscure north-eastern colliery workman.
  • Indeed George Stephenson originally envisaged the railway system as an extension of the colliery system.
  • The two-year subsidy is intended to stave off colliery closures until after the general election.
  • This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc.
  • The paper analyzes colliery general goods and materials management information system, then puts forward its goal, at last divides and depicts system functional modules.
  • 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.
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