Associations to the word «Colliery»

Wiktionary

COLLIERY, noun. (British) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
COLLIERY, noun. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

Dictionary definition

COLLIERY, noun. A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope