DCHP-1 Online
coal limit Obs. 
a tract of land on which a company or an individual had the legal right to mine coal.
See also: timber limit (def. 1a)
- 1882 S. Lucas arrived from up the river above the White Mud where he had been surveying a coal limit on Thursday.
- 1882 S. Lucas arrived from up the river above the White Mud where he had been surveying a coal limit on Thursday.