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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Coal from the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches..
John Thompson of Setauket has a permit to go to Flushing and other parts of Long Island to search for sea-coal, of which he hath probable information.
[…] and then of Sea-Coal and other necessary Fewel, fit for the working or melting of these Metalls; […]
And the change came fast. In 1570 there was still little sign of any major divergence from the traditional use of wood as fuel. Less than forty years later, in 1607, a case brought by the Crown in the Star Chamber stated as fact that ‘sea coal’ — a name for the coal that arrived in London by ship from Newcastle — was ‘the ordinary and usual fuel … almost everywhere in every man's house’. A single generation had made the switch.
Use sea coal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sea coal means Coal from the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches..
Common synonyms include steam coal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
John Thompson of Setauket has a permit to go to Flushing and other parts of Long Island to search for sea-coal, of which he hath probable information.
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