colliery

English

WOTD – 18 June 2009

Daw Mill colliery in the United Kingdom.

Etymology

From collier +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/

Noun

colliery (plural collieries)

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

Derived terms

Translations

underground coal mine

Armenian: քարածխահանք (hy) (kʿaracxahankʿ)
Bulgarian: каменовъглена мина (kamenovǎglena mina)
Czech: uhelný (cs) důl (cs) m
Dutch: kolenmijn (nl) c
Finnish: hiilikaivos (fi)
French: houillère (fr) f, (Belgium) charbonnage (fr) m
German: Untertagekohlenbergwerk n, Kohlenzeche f
Hungarian: szénbánya (hu)
Irish: gualcha f, mianach guail m
Italian: miniera di carbone f
Japanese: 地下炭鉱 (chika tankō)
Macedonian: јагленоко́п m (jaglenokóp)
Russian: у́гольная ша́хта f (úgolʹnaja šáxta)
Scottish Gaelic: mèinn-ghuail f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ру̑днӣк угља m

Roman: rȗdnīk uglja m
Swedish: kolgruva (sv) c
Welsh: glofa (cy) f

facility that supplies coal

Japanese: 地下炭鉱施設 (chika tankō shisetsu)

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