small coal
noun1
Obsolete Charcoal.
- We first declare, that Gunpowder consisteth of three ingredients, Saltpetre, Small-coal, and Brimstone.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
2
Small fragments of coal; slack.
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