coal (kol)

[= D. kolen, warm with coals, = MLG. kolen = G. kohlen = Sw. kola, burn to charcoal; from the noun.] I. trans. 1. Το burn to coal or charcoal; make into coal; char. Charcoal of roots, being coaled into great pieces, lasts longer than ordinary charcoal. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 775. The best charcoal was made of oak. The woods appear to have been coaled at intervals of about twenty years, or even le . N. and Q., 6th ser., XI. 123. 2. To mark or delineate with charcoal. [Rare.] He coaled out rhymes upon the wall. Camden, Remains, Rythmes. 3. To provide with coal; furnish a supply of coal to or for: as, to coal a steamship or a locomotive. The landlord and squire of the parish, who had always blanketed and coaled his poorer neighbours in the winter. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 38. He used two fires, which were coaled alternately. Thurston , Steam-Engine, p. 125. II. in trans. To take in coal for use as fuel: as, the ve el coaled at Portsmouth. At the twelfth station we coaled . The train ended in the desert here. W. H. Ru ell , Diary in India, I. 36. Admiral Lespès remains at anchor before Kelung, so as to prevent Chinese ve els from coaling . The American, VIII. 301.