What is the meaning of coal?

noun

  • Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
  • A hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering.

verb

  • Burn to charcoal.
    • usage: "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
  • Supply with coal.
  • Take in coal.
    • usage: "The big ship coaled"
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