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Colliery

[kol-yuh-ree]

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noun, plural -lier·ies.

a coal mine, including all buildings and equipment.

Origin:
1625–35; collier + -y³

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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colliery (ˈkɒljərɪ)

—n , pl -lieries
	chiefly (Brit) a coal mine

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colliery

1630s, "coal mine," see collier.

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"In those days, the blag slag, the waste of the coal pits, had only begun to cover the side of our hill. Not enough to mar the countryside nor blacken the beauty of our village. For the colliery had only begun to poke its skinny black fingers between the green."

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