Meaning of coal hole | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cellar or other compartment for storing coal.
2. A hole in the pavement with a removable hatch, leading to an underground coal bunker.

Examples

“[T]he back door opened on to a paved yard, with a coal-hole beside the back gate that my grandmother topped up with a bit of judicious thieving for, unlike the other coal-holes along the terrace, ours was not entitled to the free hand-outs from the pits for miners' families.”

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