coaling
English edit
Verb edit
coaling
- present participle and gerund of coal
Noun edit
coaling (plural coalings)
- The supplying of a ship or steam locomotive with coal.
- Synonym: bunkering (of a ship)
- 1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
- Apart from brief intervals for watering and coaling, No. 2395 is continuously in steam each week from 4 a.m. on Monday until 3 a.m. on the following Sunday.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
loading with coal — see bunkering
References edit
- “coaling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.