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coal

  [kohl]
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–noun
1. a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
2. a piece of glowing, charred, or burned wood or other combustible substance.
3. charcoal (def. 1).
–verb (used with object)
4. to burn to coal or charcoal.
5. to provide with coal.
–verb (used without object)
6. to take in coal for fuel.
—Idioms
7. heap coals of fire on someone's head, to repay evil with good in order to make one's enemy repent.
8. rake, haul, drag, call, or take over the coals, to reprimand; scold: They were raked over the coals for turning out slipshod work.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME cole, OE col; c. D kool, G Kohle, ON kol

Related forms:
coalless, adjective
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Word Origin & History

coal 
O.E. col "charcoal, live coal," from P.Gmc. *kula(n), from PIE base *g(e)u-lo- "live coal." Meaning "mineral consisting of fossilized carbon" is from 1253. First mentioned (370 B.C.E.) by Theophrastus in his treatise "On Stones" under the name lithos anthrakos (see anthrax). Traditionally good luck, coal was given as a New Year's gift in England, said to guarantee a warm hearth for the coming year. The phrase drag (or rake) over the coals was a reference to the treatment meted out to heretics by Christians. To carry coals to Newcastle (1606) Anglicizes Gk. glauk eis Athenas "owls to Athens."
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