Bovey coal

Bo´vey coal`

1.

(Min.) A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; - found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.