gathering coal

English

Noun

gathering coal (plural gathering coals)

1. A lighted coal left smothered in embers overnight, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “gathering coal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)