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• coal chute — noun a chute for coal • Hypernyms: ↑chute, ↑slide, ↑slideway, ↑sloping trough …   Useful english dictionary

• Coal breaker — A coal breaking plant, depicted on a postcard in 1907. A coal breaker was a coal processing plant which broke coal into various useful sizes. Coal breakers also removed impurities from the coal (typically slate) and deposited them into a culm… …   Wikipedia

• chute — A conveyor using the force of gravity, such as a coal chute from surface of the ground to basement or a hay chute from mow of a barn to the manger below; a device in amusement parks upon which children slide. 4 Am J2d Amuse § 93 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• chute — chute1 /shooht/, n., v., chuted, chuting. n. 1. an inclined channel, as a trough, tube, or shaft, for conveying water, grain, coal, etc., to a lower level. 2. a waterfall or steep descent, as in a river. 3. a water slide, as at an amusement park …   Universalium

• chute — Shoot Shoot, n. [F. chute. See {Chute}. Confused with shoot to let fly.] An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• chute — I. /ʃut / (say shooht) noun 1. a channel, trough, tube, shaft, etc., for conveying water, grain, coal, etc., to a lower level. 2. a waterfall; a steep descent, as in a river; a rapid. 3. a steep slope, as for tobogganing. 4. an inclined board,… …  

• chute man — noun : one who tends chutes especially by receiving and disposing of loads from or into them: as a. : a worker in a metal mine who loads mine cars underground b. : a coal miner who tends chutes from tipple to railroad cars c. : a millworker who… …   Useful english dictionary

• Hearn Generating Station — The Richard L Hearn Generating Station (named after Richard L Hearn) is an out of service electrical generating station in Toronto. It is still owned by Ontario Power Generation, a publicly owned electrical generation company.The site of the… …   Wikipedia

• Norfolk Southern Railway (former) — This article is about the smaller railroad prior to 1981. For the present system, which includes the old one, see Norfolk Southern Railway. Infobox SG rail railroad name=Norfolk Southern Railway logo filename=Norfolk Southern Railway (old)… …   Wikipedia

• Lester, Washington — Lester was a small town near Stampede Pass, just south of Snoqualmie Pass in King County, founded in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Railway (now the BNSF Railway ). In their 1892 Annual Report , the Northern Pacific wrote: A new yard has been… …   Wikipedia

• Elm Park tube station — Elm Park Station is a London Underground station on the District Line, located in Elm Park in the London Borough of Havering.The station is in Zone 6. The station was constructed and initially operated by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway… …   Wikipedia