coaling station

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   a seaport where ships can take on supplies of coal

   Broaderseaport

Questions about coaling station

What does coaling station mean?

coaling station means "a seaport where ships can take on supplies of coal".

Is coaling station a common word?

coaling station 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.