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n. - A container for holding pieces of carbon.

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Usage examples (7)
  • Charcoal portraits came next, and the entire family hung in a row, looking as wild and crocky as if just evoked from a coalbin.
  • Now the following story will be about Buddy on horseback -- that is, providing no cats get into our coalbin to scratch the furnace and make it go out.
  • To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a...
  • To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a...
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