A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
charcoal.
To supply with coal.
To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
To burn to charcoal; to char.
To mark or delineate with charcoal.
To be converted to charcoal.
The small, astringent, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).
The tree Prunus spinosa.
Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.