cannel

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkænəl/

Noun

cannel (countable and uncountable, plural cannels)

  1. A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
      Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors’ room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal.
    Synonym: cannel coal

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