Synonyms:
Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Meaning: a port city in northeastern England on the River Tyne; a center for coal exports (giving rise to the expression `carry coals to Newcastle' meaning to do something unnecessary)
Usage examples
The 'Ecliptic' was carrying coals from Newcastle.
The marquis of Newcastle was entirely lost to the royal cause.
When the Newcastle colliers held their earliest strikes they made compacts by spitting on a stone.
After this victory, Newcastle, with an army of fifteen thousand men, sat down before Hull. Hotham was no longer governor of this place.
We shall be at Newcastle all the winter, and I dare say there will be some balls, and I will take care to get good partners for them all."
Newcastle, having carried on the attack of Hull for some time, was beat off by a sally of the garrison, and suffered so much that he thought proper to raise the siege.
Newcastle's regiment alone, resolute to conquer or to perish, obstinately kept their ground, and maintained, by their dead bodies, the same order in which they had at first been ranged.
In the north, during this summer, the great interest and popularity of the earl, now created marquis of Newcastle, had raised a considerable force for the king; and great hopes of success were entertained from that quarter.
That gentleman and his son partly from a jealousy entertained of Lord Fairfax, partly repenting of their engagements against the king, had entered into a correspondence with Newcastle, and had expressed an intention of delivering Hull into his hands.