culm
Example Sentences
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“It could also be a culm bank where they put all the refuse of the coal industry. It does look like there are trees growing on it.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017
As far as DEP is concerned, reprocessing coal from culm banks is a benefit: It mitigates a hazard, as well as the environmental issues, Stefanko said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2015
Long have there been rumors that PRC would go into the power business, using its own small grade anthracite and reclaiming culm banks for fuel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The task of dredging out millions of tons of accumulated silt and culm is ready to begin.
From Time Magazine Archive
We speedily leave the granite and the culm measures, and are among the rocks of the Devonian series, less stern and forbidding in colour.
From Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
