colliery

Plural: collieries

Noun

• A coal mine and the buildings associated with its operations.
• a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
• An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
• A facility that supplies coal.

Examples

• The Scrabble board was a vast COLLIERY of letters, waiting for a skilled miner to extract points.

Synonyms

pit