Crossword-Solution: COLLIERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Colliery | n. | The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. |
| Colliery | n. | The coal trade. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “COLLIERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| COALMINE | 1 answer |
| Coalminer's workplace | 1 answer |
| Mining complex | 1 answer |
| Coal mine | 2 answers |
| UNDERGROUND excavation | 12 answers |
| Mine ___ | 41 answers |
| Pit | 48 answers |
| Excavation. | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COLLIERY (5)
Going down the path they could see the light of home right across, and on the ridge of the hill a thin dark outline with little lights, where the colliery village touched the sky.
Many of them are very poor people, belonging to the colliery clubs, the principle of which is, that the members pay a little over a halfpenny a week all the year round, well or ill, in return for which they get medicine and attendance free.
Yet all this caution could not effectually prevent the distemper getting among the colliery: that is to say among the ships, by which a great many seamen died of it; and that which was still worse was, that they carried it down to Ipswich and Yarmouth, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and other places on the coast—where, especially at Newcastle and at Sunderland, it carried off a great number of people.
After leaving school, he was employed for two years as a gig boy on one of the winding engines at the Govan colliery.
John Payne Collier were interred yesterday in Bray churchyard, near Maidenhead, in the presence of a large number of spectators." Thereupon the Eastern daily press published the following remarkable perversion: "The Bray Colliery Disaster.
Quotes with COLLIERY (2)
Beneath Albright’s office, the colliery sprawled across the hillside, red brick buildings scattered as though hurled from a great height, a hotchpotch of mismatched structures spattered on the valley floor. At the bottom stood the winding house, wheels motionless, above it, the engineering sheds and workshops, canteen and bath house. All lay empty. No buzz and hum of machinery. No voices raised in laughter or dispute. Gwyn found it unsettling: his lads had been out a month an…
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
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Appears in: Crossroads.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2005).