(n.) One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) If there’s nothing new, there are always those alarming pictures of him doing battle with a bacon butty.
(3) Hopes that the first Briton to contract the deadly Ebola virus will make a full recovery have been raised after his father said he was doing "pretty well" and eating bacon butties.
(4) In the leader's office mistakes have been made, processes not followed, people excluded and details left unattended, and everyone will have their consequent un-Edifying moment, from bacon butties to posing with a copy of the Sun.
(5) Katie Hopkins’ call for gunships to send refugee “cockroaches” back to their own country, and Ukip’s ploughing of the anti-immigration furrow are entirely predictable appeals to the chip-butty and pint version of Little England.
(6) The Water's Edge restaurant has fab views of the Caribbean flamingos, but you can also just grab a bacon butty at one of the snack kiosks dotted about.
(7) Cary Grant himself could not have pulled off that bacon butty with elan.
(8) • nationaltrust.org.uk PatricC Padley Gorge, Derbyshire Starting at Padley Gorge, walk down to Burbage Brook, looking out across beautiful moorland to Carl Wark in the distance, across the rickety bridge and through ancient oak forest to Grindleford Station, where you can stop at the cafe famous for its chip butties and rude notices.
(9) He stands up for what he believes in” – and had a lot of time for McMahon, who often popped in for a butty.
(10) He also says how much he enjoys eating bacon butties.
(11) Buttie-licious With one episode left, I asked American friends how they were coping with the Yorkshire accents.
(12) The bacon butties are long gone by the time shadow business secretary Angela Eagle launches her attack on Tim Farron.
(13) how much he enjoys eating bacon butties • David Miliband does a 24-page photo spread in Hello!
(14) Replace your usual bacon buttie with its warm potato scone and pancetta – trust us, you'll never look back.
(15) Strangely, the actor has form when it comes to sandwiches, what with snaps of him seemingly laughing at his butties going viral on the internet, plus a bizarre appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, when he performed a song called Gonna Eat That Talkin’ Sandwich and told his host: “My favourite sandwich is a Primanti Brothers’ sandwich, it has the french fries in the sandwich and coleslaw.
(16) Unfortunately, they had achieved this by advising him to gobble a bacon butty on camera, while wearing a suit and tie.
(17) Victory over Newcastle, their now customary home win over Manchester City and away draws at Aston Villa and West Ham have not been enough to propel them up the table, but at least suggest the side has improved since Paolo Di Canio got his P45 and the players were allowed to start putting tomato ketchup on their bacon butties and pasta bake once again.
(18) We came back with a bacon butty one morning for breakfast and we took him a rogan josh one evening."
(19) "We moved 500 patients in 51 hours without an incident, other than the bacon butties that were on the way to me being nicked," she says.
(20) "Sheffield United fan Flea of the Red Chilli Peppers sang an impromptu blast of the Blades' Greasy Chip Butty Song at the band's gig at the Sheffield Arena last week," writes Owen Phillips.
Coal
Definition:
(n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
(n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
(v. t.) To burn to charcoal; to char.
(v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
(v. t.) To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
(v. i.) To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
Example Sentences:
(1) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(2) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(3) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
(4) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
(5) According to the International Energy Agency, 147m Indians will remain without electricity into 2030 under a business as usual scenario emphasising coal.
(6) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(7) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(8) Instead the textbook simply reads: "Traditional industries, such as shipbuilding and coal mining, declined ... during her premiership, there were a number of important economic reforms within the UK".
(9) In the US, electricity accounts for 39% of emissions – and 75% of that is contributed by coal.
(10) A survey was conducted in southern Illinois with a population of 46 coal miners and ex-coal miners ranging in age from 42 to 86 years.
(11) Australia’s greatest contribution to global warming is through our coal, exported and burned in foreign power stations.
(12) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
(13) The DECC believes clusters of coal and gas plants with CCS would offer efficiency because they could share the costs of building and operating pipelines to storage facilities, probably in old North Sea oil and gas fields.
(14) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
(15) That stake in eight Indonesian coal mines represents 1GT of future carbon dioxide emissions, more than Germany’s annual output.
(16) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(17) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(18) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
(19) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(20) Engie, the owner of Rugeley coal-fired station in Staffordshire, which made the most recent closure announcement earlier this month, blamed low wholesale power prices as much as carbon taxes for its decision .