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Dictionary definition for: Coal

1. (n) fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

2. (v) burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

3. (n) a hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire

4. (v) supply with coal

5. (v) take in coal; "The big ship coaled"

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