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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place where coal is sorted and sized by the use of flowing water, and by the same process is concentrated and freed from dirt and incombustible gangue.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The place in the above ground part of a coalmine where coal is washed

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