seacoal

seacoal
seacoal (n.) old name for "mineral coal" (as opposed to charcoal), mid-13c.; earlier, in Old English, "jet," which chiefly was found washed ashore by the sea. The coal perhaps so called from resemblance to this, or because it was first dug from beds exposed by wave erosion. From SEA (Cf. sea) + COAL (Cf. coal).

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