colliery

From collier + -y.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/

colliery (plural collieries)

1. (British) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, “Chapter VII”, in Capricornia‎^[1], page 91:

     From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]

2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.