coal limit

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a tract of land on which a company or an individual had the legal right to mine coal.

See: timber limit(def. 1a)

Quotations

1882

S. Lucas arrived from up the river above the White Mud where he had been surveying a coal limit on Thursday.