Definitions for colliery

colliery col·lier·y

Spelling: [kol-yuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈkɒl yə ri/

Colliery is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in colliery (ceillory).

Definitions for colliery

noun

  1. a coal mine, including all buildings and equipment.

Origin of colliery

First recorded in 1625-35; collier + -y3

Examples for colliery

After four days of rescue efforts, mine officials decided to seal off the colliery and end the search for lives and bodies.

A few empty motor-cars of the colliery directors stood about.

George Stephenson was at this time the engine-wright of the colliery.

A colliery was opened at Denhall in Wirral, where coal is worked to this day.

Her husband, she said, was not in the p. 130house at present, but she would send for him to the colliery.

He was away, it was believed in Durham, working at some colliery engine.

The coal had to be hauled from the pit of the colliery to the shipping place.

Benxihu, China (1942) To date, the Benxihu (Honkeiko) colliery was the site of the most lethal mining accidents on record.

But he would not be put down by the bully of the colliery, and he fought him.

They were compelled to go to him by the rules of the colliery.

Word Value for colliery
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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