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Meanings of coaling station in English

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Repository of fuel (initially coal and later oil) for vessels, ships or locomotives, or storage and feeding unit in fossil-fuel power stations.

Usage of coaling station in English
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You mean the plans for the coaling station on the Pacific near the Canal?
The Poisoned Pen
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Those plans of the coaling station are a fake- afake
The Poisoned Pen
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Then it became a coaling station, a supply store, a half-way town, and an ocean post-office.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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Algiers is the chief coaling station in the Mediterranean, having become so largely at the expense of Gibraltar.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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A coaling station is to be established there, which will be convenient and useful to United States vessels.
State of the Union Addresses
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That is what this fellow obtained in exchange for his false blue prints of the supposed coaling station on the Pacific.
The Poisoned Pen
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However, the fortunes of war are such that the island is likely to become ours permanently as a coaling station in the Pacific.
The Story of the Philippines / Natural Riches, Industrial Resour...
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It was used as a coaling station, too-yellow-feverand coal being the principal colonial 'industries' until the cables came at the end of the century.
Outposts: journeys to the surviving relics of the british empire
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The Cuban and Hawaiian investments had paid one hundred per cent and the territory of Samoa was well worth its cost as a coaling station.
The King in Yellow
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The necessities of our Navy require convenient coaling stations and dock and harbor privileges.
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to...
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Several islands give facilities for establishing coaling stations, supply depots, harbors, and places for repairs.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volu...
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The massive city starts its journey and in one day it floats to the coaling stations.
Life in a Thousand Worlds
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By the end of the nineteenth century, coaling stations were an important item in international politics.
Recent Developments in European Thought
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All over the world are its linked possessions and its ports and coaling stations and fastnesses on the trade routes.
In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace
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Aden was made a free port, and was chosen as one of the coaling stations of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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All seas are ploughed by the keels of English vessels, all coasts dotted with the coaling stations and fortresses of the British world-power.
The Coming Conquest of England