1. (

• coal

) fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period ;

2. (

• ember ,
• coal

) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering ;

1. (

• char ,
• coal

) burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" ;

2. (

• coal

) supply with coal ;

3. (

• coal

) take in coal; "The big ship coaled" ;