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coal

(v): burn to charcoal

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(v): cause to burn or combust

(v): supply with coal

(v): give something useful or necessary to

(v): take in coal

(v): fold up

(n): fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

(n): fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content

(n): matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant

(n): a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

(n): a piece broken off or cut off of something else

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21 days ago yarb said:

His laft words, fpoken to his fervant when
that gentleman was breaking a large hard coal,
were 'That is a ftone, you blockhead'. He was quiet
a twelvemonth afterwards and died in filence.

- Peter Reading, Phrenfy, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981

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