wood coal

noun

brown coal; lignite.
charcoal.

Origin of wood coal

First recorded in 1645–55

Words nearby wood coal

wood anemone, wood ant, wood avens, wood betony, wood block, wood coal, wood cudweed, wood dale, wood duck, wood engraving, wood fern

Example sentences from the Web for wood coal

  • He stood up, casting his bit of wood-coal on the cloth before him.

    The Maid-At-Arms |Robert W. Chambers

  • For in the wood-coal a great deal of the hydrogen still remains.

    Town Geology |Charles Kingsley

British Dictionary definitions for wood coal

wood coal

noun

another name for lignite, charcoal