Word coal - Indian Laws - General

Word coal In Blackies Concise Dictionary , New Edition, page 134, relied on by the Board reads as follows: Coal: Kol: A piece of wood or other combustible substance burning or charred; charcoal; a cinder; now, usually a solid black substance found in the earth, largely employed as fuel, and formed from vast masses of vegetable matter deposited through the luxurious growth of plants in former epoch of the earth s history. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary at pages 330 and 331 gives the meaning of coal as follows: 1. A piece of carbon glowing without a flame. 2. A piece of burnt wood, etc. that is still capable of combustion without flame, cinder, ashes. 3. Charcoal. 4. A mineral, solid, hard, opaque, black or blackish, found in seams in the earth, and largely used as fuel; it consists of carbonized vegetable matter. At page 293, the said dictionary gives the meaning of charcoal as follows: The suggestion that Char-Chare v. or sb. as if turn-coal, i.e. wood turned into coal, lacks support. 1. The black porous residue, consisting (when pure) wholly of carbon, obtained from partly burnt wood, bones, etc. Hence specified as wood, vegetable, animal etc. The Webster s New International Dictionary gives the following meaning of charcoal at page 452: (Char to burn, reduce to coal; Coal); 1. A dark coloured or black porous form of carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substance, as that made by charging wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded.