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Definition of Collieries
1. colliery [n] - See also: colliery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collieries
Literary usage of Collieries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Great Britain (1850)
"The feature that is somewhat peculiar to the whole is, that they have occurred
principally either at collieries that have only existed a few years, ..."
2. The Mining Magazine (1853)
"246,60304 collieries AND COAL OPERATORS. The increase in the number of collieries
and coal operators during 1852 as compared with 1851 was, according to the ..."
3. Griffiths' Guide to the Iron Trade of Great Britain...: Contains an by Samuel Griffiths (1873)
"DERBYSHIRE, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, LEICESTERSHIRE, AND WARWICKSHIRE. Mr. Thomas Evans,
Inspector. The Number of collieries, 187. The production of coal, ..."
4. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1885)
"LJ from forty-eight different collieries to a number of places lying eastward of
those collieries, so that D. whose colliery was the easternmost of these ..."
5. An Introduction to the Industrial History of England by Abbott Payson Usher (1920)
"The collieries were near ... The first improvements were made in 1630, when plank
roads were laid for the coal cars at one of the collieries. ..."
6. The Trust Movement in British Industry: A Study of Business Organisation by Henry William Macrosty (1907)
"At last in July, 1902, the prospectus of the United collieries, Limited, was
placed before the public, announcing the union of twenty-four Scotch businesses ..."
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