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BITUMINOUS COAL
- A coal that when heated yields considerable volatile bituminous matter.
- Usage: Interview of scientist on the now-abandoned town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which was vacated in the 1980s, decades after a vein of coal was was ignited beneath the town, which still burns to this day.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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GRAPPLE
- A bucket similar to a clamshell but usually having more jaws.
- Usage: Interview during memorial ceremony marking the end of cleanup operations at the former site of the World Trade Center; the interviewee's father was one of the original construction workers who built the Twin Towers.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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