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colliery (s) (noun), collieries (pl)
A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it: Some men who spend their lives in collieries have been severely injured or killed when the tunnels have collapsed on them.
A place, lr a coal mine, where it is dug.
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