Definitions for coal

• Definition
• Anagrams (32)

coal coal

Spelling: [kohl]

IPA: /koʊl/

Coal is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in coal (aclo).

Definitions for coal

noun

1. a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
2. a piece of glowing, charred, or burned wood or other combustible substance.
3. charcoal (def 1).

Idioms

1. heap coals of fire on someone's head, to repay evil with good in order to make one's enemy repent.
2. rake / haul / drag / call / take over the coals, to reprimand; scold:

verb (used with object)

1. to burn to coal or charcoal.
2. to provide with coal.

verb (used without object)

1. to take in coal for fuel.

Origin of coal

before 900; Middle English cole, Old English col; cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohle, Old Norse kol

Examples for coal

It'd be cheaper than coal, I thought; that's why I invented it.

Built on fear and run by fear, fear is as essential to their existence as coal to our industries.

Of Taylor Swift's many famous boyfriends: "She has seen more shafts than a coal miner."

In using this device, only a coal or a wood stove is practical.

There was also a large supply of gunpowder, ball, and shot, and coal and wood in abundance.

Life can be tough in West Virginia, especially for the hardworking souls of coal country.

But by 1974, the coal that had made the island so profitable ran dry, and gas had become the most sought after fuel source.

Should a coal fall into the dripping-pan take it out immediately.

The aforementioned stories may very well be legitimate, but let's consider them a sort of canary in the coal mine.

Good governance would mean sticks and coal for too many of our favorite politicians.