cannel coal

1. 1.

   a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame

   Broaderbituminous coal

Questions about cannel coal

What does cannel coal mean?

cannel coal means "a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame".

Is cannel coal a common word?

cannel coal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.