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  • noun a bin for holding coal

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Examples

  • Matters were simply and efficiently laid out, a few judicious strokes of someones walking stick were added for clarity and emphasis, and the pair were then introduced to the delights of their own coalhole.

    Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

  • Matters were simply and efficiently laid out, a few judicious strokes of someones walking stick were added for clarity and emphasis, and the pair were then introduced to the delights of their own coalhole.

    Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

  • To go down to Milton House, the mystery place, at night, and get down the coalhole!

    The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963

  • I waited and waited inside that coal-hole for you to come back with George - and when you didn't, I left the coalhole and got into the house.

    Five Have Plenty Of Fun Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1955

  • He held his sides with laughter to see the lieutenant of the tender he was in, mad with rage and drink, chase the steward round and round the mainmast with a loaded pistol, whilst the terrified hands, fearing for their lives, fled for refuge to the coalhole, the roundtops and the shore.

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

  • After an hour or so of that, I gets up and sits by the open window; but as there ain't any moon or any street lights, it's like starin 'down a coalhole.

    Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

  • And yet he failed in one instance to feel the edge of an open coalhole, and his right leg slipped down into it.

    Raspberry Jam Carolyn Wells 1902

  • Next, behind a low dirty door in the S. wall, is the coalhole, then the high dresser, and then the door to the narrow front passage, beneath the ceiling of which are lodged masts, spars and sails.

    A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

  • She in the kitchen, I in the coalhole or potato patch, 'twill be all one.

    In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • "In perfect splendour is the creature put up, and I with a bedroom like a coalhole and such drawing-rooms as you see each time you enter the house!" she broke forth spitefully one day when she forgot herself.

    The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

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