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- noun Plural form of
colliery .
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Examples
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If we seek the real predecessor of the modern railroad track, we must go back three hundred years to the wooden rails on which were drawn the little cars used in English collieries to carry the coal from the mines to tidewater.
The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states John Moody 1913
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Lawrence considers these questions through the medium of English rural life, beginning his story in the small Midlands village of Cossethay just as a canal has been built through it to connect the new collieries, bringing the first signs of the "commotion" – the violation, in Lawrence's sexual-topographical vision – of industrialisation to the slumbrous valley.
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He left Osmondthorpe secondary modern school aged 15 to work as a labourer and then at Temple Newsam and Lofthouse collieries.
Jimi Heselden obituary Martin Wainwright 2010
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It tells the tale of two migrant miners who literally make a killing from unsafe illegal collieries.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Educated farmers no longer wanted to work underground because it was too dangerous, but both state mines and private collieries were hiring poor, uneducated workers, often from ethnic minorities, to do the dirty work, just as the West had done for centuries.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Following the decline in the textile industry, the family moved to the north-east in 1905 so her father could find work at the collieries.
Oldest Briton, born when Victoria was on the throne, dies at age 111 2010
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On the orders of the central government, it was closing down small, illegal collieries and the worst-polluting factories.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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It tells the tale of two migrant miners who literally make a killing from unsafe illegal collieries.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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If adopted on the massive scale envisaged by Shu, it will extend the life of collieries for decades.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Over the years, I had talked to black-faced miners at the mouths of illegal pits, descended deep down the shafts of huge state-run collieries, consulted labor activists, and interviewed mine owners and policymakers.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
chained_bear commented on the word collieries
Usage on gunpowder.
October 14, 2008