The phrase "a load of coal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a quantity of coal, often in contexts related to transportation, energy production, or mining.
Example: "The truck delivered a load of coal to the power plant to fuel the generators."
Alternatives: "a shipment of coal" or "a batch of coal."
But opponents still are piling on, with a load of coal, and a load of criticism".
As a teenager, it was Białkowski's job to haul a load of coal to his family's home every day from an outbuilding on their property.
Though friendly with Klein, Halston was privately dismissive of the younger man's talent, once saying, "I wouldn't know a Calvin Klein from a load of coal".
Barging Through London (geddit?) from 1924 follows in flickering, captioned silence the slow, Dobbin-led progress of a load of coal along the Regent's Canal from Limehouse to Paddington Basin.
In the preface to SHIFU, YOU'LL DO ANYTHING FOR A LAUGH (Arcade, $23.95), a compact collection of stories selected by his gifted longtime translator Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan, the author of "Red Sorghum," reflects on his difficult childhood and recalls feasting with his classmates on a load of coal dumped outside their school.
In the next two months, the Odyssey would go back to Murmansk and then back to China, then travel across the Pacific to Vancouver to pick up a load of coal, which it would take back to Hamburg via the Arctic route.
She stopped in Guaymas in neutral Mexico to take on a fresh load of coal on 8 September.
On the morning of 27 October, days before the operation was scheduled to begin, Karpf ordered Regensburgs crew to take on a full load of coal and oil.
The cash compensation he received was worth a small fraction of the land's value — plus a single forklift load of coal — and he had to move his home away from the mine.
Each narrow boat travelling through the series of locks (22 of them each 6 ft (1.8 m) deep) with a 25-ton load of coal caused 85 tons of water to be discharged into the brook below the locks.
That this was not considered in the design outraged the Walker policy board convened in 1896 to evaluate the existing American battleships and propose a design for the new s and they set a standard that the load of coal and ammunition that future ships were designed for had to be at least two-thirds of the maximum, so similar problems would be prevented in new ships.
