[Proper name of a parish near Exeter in Devonshire.] Bovey coal: a lignite or brown-coal of Miocene age, occurring in beds at Bovey, and elsewhere.
1760. Milles, Bovey Coal, in Phil. Trans., LI. 535. The Devonshire fossil … commonly known by the name of the Bovey Coal.
1860. Fordyce, Hist. Coal, &c. 31. Bovey Coal is found embedded in the pipe clays of Dorsetshire.
1861. Mrs. Beeton, Bk. Househ. Managem., iii. 32. Of coal there are various species; as, pit … cannel … bovey, jet, &c.
