colliery — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.

   Usage

   • UK usage

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   Sir Geoffrey, Clifford's father, was intensely ridiculous, chopping down his trees, and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war [...] From the rather dismal rooms at Wragby she heard the rattle-rattle of the screens at the pit, the puff of the winding-engine, the clink-clink of shunting trucks, and the hoarse little whistle of the colliery locomotives.

   From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]

2. A facility that supplies coal.

   Usage

   • US usage

Noun

1. a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

   Synonyms

   pit

   Broader terms

   workplacework