colliery

An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.

Noun

  1. An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
    • From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […] - 1938, Xavier Herbert, “Chapter VII”, in Capricornia, page 91:
  2. A facility that supplies coal.

Origin

Etymology tree English collier English -y English colliery From collier + -y.

Forms

collieries

Derived

Blackhall Colliery Boldon Colliery Colliery Row Cornsay Colliery Easington Colliery Shotton Colliery