Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to coal
Participle: coaled
Gerund: coaling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | coal |
| you | coal |
| he;she;it | coals |
| we | coal |
| you | coal |
| they | coal |
Perfect
| I | have coaled |
| you | have coaled |
| he;she;it | has coaled |
| we | have coaled |
| you | have coaled |
| they | have coaled |
Past
| I | coaled |
| you | coaled |
| he;she;it | coaled |
| we | coaled |
| you | coaled |
| they | coaled |
Pluperfect
| I | had coaled |
| you | had coaled |
| he;she;it | had coaled |
| we | had coaled |
| you | had coaled |
| they | had coaled |
Future
| I | will coal |
| you | will coal |
| he;she;it | will coal |
| we | will coal |
| you | will coal |
| they | will coal |
Future Perfect
| I | will have coaled |
| you | will have coaled |
| he;she;it | will have coaled |
| we | will have coaled |
| you | will have coaled |
| they | will have coaled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | coal |
| you | coal |
| he;she;it | coal |
| we | coal |
| you | coal |
| they | coal |
Perfect
| I | have coaled |
| you | have coaled |
| he;she;it | have coaled |
| we | have coaled |
| you | have coaled |
| they | have coaled |
Imperfect
| I | coaled |
| you | coaled |
| he;she;it | coaled |
| we | coaled |
| you | coaled |
| they | coaled |
Pluperfect
| I | had coaled |
| you | had coaled |
| he;she;it | had coaled |
| we | had coaled |
| you | had coaled |
| they | had coaled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would coal |
| you | would coal |
| he;she;it | would coal |
| we | would coal |
| you | would coal |
| they | would coal |
Perfect
| I | would have coaled |
| you | would have coaled |
| he;she;it | would have coaled |
| we | would have coaled |
| you | would have coaled |
| they | would have coaled |
Imperative
| you | coal |
| we | Let's coal |
| you | coal |
Verbs conjugated like 'coal'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'coal'
coak,
coat,
coax,
coil,
coll,
cool,
cowl,
foal,
goal,
beal,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English col, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (“coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with North Frisian kööl (“coal”), Saterland Frisian Koole (“coal”), West Frisian koal (“coal”), Cimbrian kholl (“coal”), Dutch kool (“coal; carbon”), German Kohle (“coal”), Limburgish Kǫe̩l (“coal”), Luxembourgish Kuel (“coal”), Vilamovian köła (“coal”), Yiddish קויל (koyl, “coal”), Danish kul (“coal”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kol (“coal; carbon”), Jamtish kuł (“coal; carbon”), Norwegian Bokmål kol, kull (“coal”). Compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic gual (“coal”), Manx geayl (“coal”), Lithuanian žvi̇̀lti (“to glow, twinkle”), Persian زکال (zakâl), زکار (zekâr), زغال (zoġâl, “coal”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), all from the same root. See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'Koole', Wymysorys '
köła', Sanskrit '
ज्वल्'.
Verbs referencing "coal"
Sanskrit
ज्वलति.
Sample Sentences
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1863, Colonial Secretary to Commander Baldwin, USN
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shortly after that she coaled again at Simon's Bay; and that after remaining in the neighbourhood of our ports for a time, she proceeded to Mauritius, where she coaled again, and then returned to this colony.
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Our next stopping-place was Newcastle, and here we coaled in earnest, for the steamer was flying light, and was loaded up in every available place. [1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 131:]
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The light shook and splintered in the puddles. A red glare came from an outward-bound steamer that was coaling. [1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:]
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N.W.R. four-cylinder 4-6-2 class "XS1," No. 761, coaling at Delhi junction. This class is the most powerful passenger engine in India. [1949 November and December, Railway Magazine, page 371 (photo caption):]
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to coal a steamer
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January 1917, National Geographic Magazine, Volume 31 Number 1, One Hundred British Seaports
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Cruisers may be coaled at sea and provided with ammunition openly. The submarine may not
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After working the 1.30 p.m. through train from Forres to Aberdeen as far as Elgin, she returns tender first with a local passenger train and is then coaled and watered at Forres shed, and eventually works back to Perth on the 10.20 p.m. through freight. [1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:]
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The cleaner worked, of course, at nights. He had to coal and light up the engine, as well as clean it, for the next day's work, which commenced with a light run to Barnham to "bring in the goods" from that station at about 6.30 a.m. [1952 February, J. Pelham Maitland, “Locomotive Working on Sussex Branches Fifty Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 84:]
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After the initial burn the goal of any good fire should be coaling; that is, creating a bed of solid coals that will sustain the fire. [2014, Ken Mudge, Steve Gabriel, Farming the Woods:]
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As a result, particles of wood and twigs insufficiently coaled are frequently found at the bottom of such pits. [1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 18:]
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Char-coal of roots, coaled into great pieces. [1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History:]
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[…] marvailing, he coaled out these rithms upon the wall near to the picture [1551, William Camden, Remains concerning Britain:]