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coal bin

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1423, OED Evaluation: N/A

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ExampleMeaning
That used to be (inc.) well that was just the basement. It had, in my time, it just had earthen floor and the big furnace was in there. The small furnace was over by the back door there. And it had had coal bins and all in there; they were still in there. It was just a dark (inc.) they had a couple of electric light bulbs in there I never really knew much about it.
A large container or chest, usually opened by lifing a hinged lid at the top, designed to hold coal.
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It had a little uh cone-shaped section built out on one corner of it and it was a three level apartment building. It was kind-of fun. It had the old ah, ah auger electric power system, coal fire, hot water system and the- had a coal bin in- in the basement where ah they brought the fuel in and dumped it in the window and filled up this coal bin and- and then the heating had to be stoked and shoveled and the ashes taken out of this coal furnace daily by the superintendent of the building.
A large container or chest, usually opened by lifing a hinged lid at the top, designed to hold coal.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... and he would in those days when that Mulroney house was being heated, it was heated by coal. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: So we would go down into the coal bins and shovel coal manually into the hopper everyday. So he was always- he'd go, leave the industrial job and go over to their house and keep the furnace running that way. Oh yeah.
A large container or chest, usually opened by lifing a hinged lid at the top, designed to hold coal.
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Speaker: ... some kids apparently were in the garage and found some matches and were playing on a- something in there, trying to light them. There was also a coal bin, because we had had a stove that took coal (laughs). Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And um, so it- you-know, they- the gas from the lawn-mower and the coal, it didn't take much for it to- to go. And um that stove I think was taken out the year after ...
A large container or chest, usually opened by lifing a hinged lid at the top, designed to hold coal.