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colliery

Noun

col=lier=y

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colliery(n = noun.artifact) pit - a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it; Array

has parts: coal mine, coalpit, mine

is a kind of work, workplace

colliery, n. [Cf. Coalery, Collier.].

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. [1913 Webster]
The coal trade. Johnson. [1913 Webster]

colliery, n. (pl. -ies) a coalmine and its associated buildings.

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