Cannel-coal
an oily, compact coal, burning readily and brightly.
Historical Examples
A World Apart Samuel Kimball Merwin
The Sailor’s Word-Book William Henry Smyth
A Practical Treatise on Gas-light Fredrick Accum
The World Peril of 1910 George Griffith
The Art of Entertaining M. E. W. Sherwood
noun
a dull coal having a high volatile content and burning with a smoky luminous flame
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