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Bovey Coal
Webster's Dictionary
A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; - found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bovey Coal'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/bovey-coal.html. 1828.