COAL
ADJECTIVES
► QUICK live, burning; said of coals → c1000 obs.
NOUNS
► AIZLE ► IZLE a live coal that flies out of the fire; an ember → a1000 Sc.
► BLACK DIAMONDS coal → 1890 sl. (Bk.)
► COBS coal → 1977 Amer. dial.
► CULM coal-dust; small or refuse coal → 1603
► EASLE a live coal or ember → a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GLEDE ► GLEED a red hot coal carried on a small tongs from one pioneer cabin to another to start fires → 1847 Amer. dial.
► INGLE a burning coal, peat, etc.; fuel for a fire → 1814 Sc.
► ISELL ► ISIL a live coal, a cinder → 1825 Sc.
► LAMPBLACK coal → 1897 US railroad sl.
► NEEST ► NIST a live coal, a spark of fire; a very small fire → 1886 Sc.
► NUTS small lumps of coal, esp. those graded as having less than a certain diameter → 1857
► PITTSBURGH FEATHERS coal → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► PURSE a fragment of live coal exploding from a fire, regarded as a good omen → 1736 Eng. dial.
► QUILE a live coal, a glowing ember of coal, peat, wood, etc.; a red-hot cinder → 1866 Sc.
► RUSKS small pieces of coal → 1883 Eng. dial. obs.
► SEED a burning coal covered with ashes to preserve a fire overnight → 1931 Amer. dial.
► SKITTLE a coal scuttle → 1973 Amer. dial.
► SMUDGE very small coal; fine slack, coal dust → 1883
► TAND a piece of burning coal or peat; a spark of fire; a firebrand → 1866 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► COALER a dealer in coal → 1710 US
► FANTAIL GENTLEMAN a coal-heaver → 19C sl.
► JAGGER a person who sells coals in small loads; a carter or carrier, esp. a man who makes his living by carting for other people → 1870 Eng. dial.
► LEGER ► LEGIER ► LIEGER ‘a Londoner who formerly bought coals of the country colliers at so much a sack, and made his chief profit by using smaller sacks, making pretense he was a country collier’ → 1592 obs.
► PONY PUTTER a person who drives a pony pulling a coal wagon at a colliery → 1871
► SMALL COAL MAN orig. a man who supplied small coal (coal that is small in size or fine or powdered coal); later, a retailer of coal on a small scale → 1643
VERBS
► BAIL to shovel coal into a firebox → 1975 US railroad usage, arch. (Bk.)
► CARBUNCULATE to burn like a coal → 1623 obs.
► FLY THE PIGEONS to steal coal as one carts it → 1923 cant
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