colliery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: colliery	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for colliery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
colliery n a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it Synonym(s): colliery, pit
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Colliery \Col"lier*y\, n.; pl. {Collieries}. [Cf. {Coalery}, {Collier}.] 1. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. 2. The coal trade. [Obs.] --Johnson.