Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where coal is sorted and sized by the use of flowing water, and by the same process is concentrated and freed from dirt and incombustible gangue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The place in the above ground part of a
coalmine wherecoal iswashed
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word washery.
Examples
-
The Piperwar mine 5sq.km in area, 300 feet depth displaced 6 villages with approximately 5 villages and a coal washery nearby displaced 2 villages.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
-
The Piperwar mine 5sq.km in area, 300 feet depth displaced 6 villages with approximately 5 villages and a coal washery nearby displaced 2 villages.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
-
The Piperwar mine 5sq.km in area, 300 feet depth displaced 6 villages with approximately 5 villages and a coal washery nearby displaced 2 villages.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
-
The Piperwar mine 5sq.km in area, 300 feet depth displaced 6 villages with approximately 5 villages and a coal washery nearby displaced 2 villages.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
-
The Piperwar mine 5sq.km in area, 300 feet depth displaced 6 villages with approximately 5 villages and a coal washery nearby displaced 2 villages.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
-
The Piperwar mine 5sq.km in area, 300 feet depth displaced 6 villages with approximately 5 villages and a coal washery nearby displaced 2 villages.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
-
The arm-waving sophistry that tries to escape this fact just makes evolution look bad — like whiny wishy-washery.
-
I spent the morning visiting the washery at Onllwyn, a fascinating experience that built on my previous visit to the open cast site at Nant Helen.
-
The washery at Onllwyn employs 80 people and process coal from Nant Helen and Margam for the domestic market, Aberthaw power station and the concessionary coal scheme.
-
I spent the morning visiting the washery at Onllwyn, a fascinating experience that built on my previous visit to the open cast site at Nant Helen.
Archive 2003-09-01 2003
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.