cannel coal

English

Etymology

Corrupted from candle coal.

Noun

cannel coal (uncountable)

  1. A kind of mineral coal of a black colour, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished, and formerly burned as a substitute for candles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cannel coal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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