Definition of Coalyard

1. a yard for storing coal [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coalyard

coalmine
coalmines
coalmouse
coalpit
coalpits
coals
coals to Newcastle
coalsack
coalsacks
coalshed
coalsheds
coaltar
coaltars
coalworks
coaly
coalyard (current term)
coalyards
coaming
coamings
coamplified
coanalytic
coanchor
coanchored
coanchoring
coanchors
coannex
coannexed
coannexes
coannexing
coannihilation

Literary usage of Coalyard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1908)
"The car was being moved from defendant's track by a side track to an abutting coalyard by mules under charge of an employee of the person who had contracted ..."

2. Family Monographs: The History of Twenty-four Families Living in the Middle by Elsa Goldina Herzfeld (1905)
"Alexander got a place as coal shoveler in a coalyard in West Forty-sixth street. His family lived for five years in a tenement house in the rear of the ..."

3. Highways and Byways of New England: Including the States of Massachusetts by Clifton Johnson (1915)
"He owned a coalyard down on one of the wharves and never fenced it in. Every winter when he was buyin' coal he got forty ton extra for the poor to lug away. ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"People v. Federal Security Co., 09 NE 668, 669, 255 111. 561. coalyard A coalyard, wherein coal mined by Its owner is cleaned, assorted, and stored and from ..."

5. Practical Housing by John Sutton Nettlefold (1908)
"seven shops, a coalyard, and a recreation ground of about a third of an acre in extent. " The buildings, with the exception of the superintendent's house, ..."

6. Reports of Decisions in Probate by James Vincent Coffey, Peter V. Ross (1908)
"... upon another occasion he went into the same son's coalyard, took off his coat and began to shovel coal; this was done without request or necessity; ..."

7. Report. by Henry Phipps Institute (1908)
"... 5102 8 i 54 Clerk (clerks and copyists) 25895 5 109 Cloth examiner, io coalyard employee, io 2 Collector, ii 6 Color mixer, ooi Cook (servants and ..."

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