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COLLIERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
Synonyms:
colliery; pit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("colliery" is a kind of...):
work; workplace (a place where work is done)
Meronyms (parts of "colliery"):
coal mine; coalpit (a mine where coal is dug from the ground)
mine (excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted)
