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Bovey Coal
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.