seacoal

== English == === Alternative forms === sea coal, sea-coal === Etymology === From sea +‎ coal. === Noun === seacoal (uncountable) Coal from the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches. (historical, chiefly Southern England) 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). 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; […] " (historical, technical, chiefly US) Coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives. Synonym: steam coal 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.