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colliery

noun

col·​liery ˈkäl-yə-rē How to pronounce colliery (audio)
plural collieries
: a coal mine and its connected buildings

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Last year, nine miners plunged to deaths when a steel elevator cable broke at a colliery in a part of Donbas controlled by pro-Russia separatists. New York Times, 25 June 2022 Although Pegswood’s own colliery closed in 1968, mining remained the main source of local employment until the early 1990s. The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021 Local residents and miners from the Aberfan colliery led the early rescue operation, helping to pull casualties from the wreckage. Matthew Robinson, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019 Wales has many – and win it for Labour, the center-left party that grew out of the union movement that organized the miners in the collieries which defined and disfigured these valleys. Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2019 But by the time the band formed in the mid-1980s the Valleys had endured decades of industrial decline, and Margaret Thatcher’s drive to shut down the remaining collieries precipitated unrest. Longreads, 25 June 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1635, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of colliery was in 1635

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