seacoal

Noun

 * 1) coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold.
 * 2)  coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times).
 * 1)  coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times).


 * 1) * 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 49:
 * "and then of Sea-Coal and other necessary Fewel, fit for the working or melting of these Metalls;"
 * 1)  coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.
 * 2) Such coal used in foundry practice, intermixed with foundry sand or applied in a layer on its face, to modify the behavior of the molten metal.
 * 1) Such coal used in foundry practice, intermixed with foundry sand or applied in a layer on its face, to modify the behavior of the molten metal.
 * 1) Such coal used in foundry practice, intermixed with foundry sand or applied in a layer on its face, to modify the behavior of the molten metal.