coaling
Taking on fuel
Coaling is the process of loading coal onto a ship, locomotive, or other coal-powered vessel.
Before oil and diesel dominated transportation, coaling stations were essential infrastructure along shipping routes and railways: The ship stopped at port for coaling.
The term survives mainly in historical contexts.
Reinforced subterranean stronghold
- stokerFurnace fuel feeder
- steamshipBoiler-propelled water vessel
- tenderSoft or sore
- firemanEmergency blaze responder
vessel · port · harbor · dock · collier · bunkering · refueling · navy
Heated water's gaseous form
- engineMachine producing motion
- tenderSoft or sore
- fireboxFuel-burning enclosure
- stokerFurnace fuel feeder
fireman · shovel · cinders · ashpan · locomotive · railroad · boiler · furnace
Underground carbon extraction site
- extractionAct of removing
- anthraciteHighest-grade coal variety
- bituminousContaining natural tar
- minerOne who excavates ore
pithead · conveyor · powerplant · carbon · fossil · combustion · pickaxe · headlamp
bunker
Reinforced subterranean stronghold
fireman · vessel · port · harbor · dock · collier · bunkering · refueling · navy · fleet
steam
Heated water's gaseous form
stoker · fireman · shovel · cinders · ashpan · locomotive · railroad · boiler · furnace · soot
coalmine
Underground carbon extraction site
- extractionAct of removing
- anthraciteHighest-grade coal variety
- bituminousContaining natural tar
miner · pithead · conveyor · powerplant · carbon · fossil · combustion · pickaxe · headlamp · ventilation
Victorian
Of a prim era
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- laborersWorkers doing physical tasks
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
union · ironworks · blacksmith · canaries · pithead · workhouse · shovels · sooty · grimy · nineteenth-century
- steam trainslocomotive, steam engine, steam, steam locomotive, boiler