seacoal

Meaning

Noun

• Coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold.
• Coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times).
• Coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.

Origin

• sea + coal