smallcoal

plural smallcoals

1. alternativecountablerareuncountableAlternative form of small coal.

   [...] Ivor was the one who said that in those books a lot of smallcoal was mixed [...]

   1960, Richard Llewellyn, Up into the Singing Mountain, page 52

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   Put your Mould upon ſome warm Wood -Aſhes, then cover it with Smallcoal, over the Smallcoal lay Charcoal, and then fling ſome lighted Smallcoal over them to kindle the others

   1740, Godfrey Smith, The laboratory, or school of arts: in which are faithfully exhibited and fully explain'd, I. A variety of curious and valuable experiments in refining, ... VI. A dissertation on the nature and growth of saltpetre: ... The second edition. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which is added an appendix: ... Translated from the High Dutch. 1740, page 109