Usually means: Coal mining site or facility.
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  1. colliery: Merriam-Webster
  2. colliery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. colliery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colliery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. colliery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Colliery, colliery: Wordnik
  7. colliery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. colliery: Wiktionary
  9. colliery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. colliery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. colliery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Colliery, colliery: Dictionary.com
  13. Colliery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Colliery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. colliery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. colliery: Rhymezone
  17. Colliery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. colliery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. colliery: FreeDictionary.org
  20. colliery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. colliery: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. colliery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colliery: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. COLLIERY: Mining Terms used in mid 1800's

(Note: See collieries as well.)

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noun:  (British) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
noun:  (US) A facility that supplies coal.

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