dice coal

noun

A kind of coal that easily splits into cubical fragments.

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Meanings

noundice coal (uncountable)
  1. dateduncountableA kind of coal that easily splits into cubical fragments.

    Rhomboidal coal (commonly called dice coal), in contradistinction to coals which do not break in rhombs.

    1804, James Sowerby, British Mineralogy
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