Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coal miner.
- noun A coal ship.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A digger of coal; one who works in a coal-mine.
- noun A coal-merchant or dealer in coal.
- noun A coasting-vessel employed in the coal-trade.
- noun The gaper, Mya truncata, a bivalve mollusk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
- noun A vessel employed in the coal trade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining
coal or makingcharcoal ) or in its transporting or commerce. - noun nautical A
vessel carrying abulk cargo ofcoal - noun A nickname used by the
traveller community, referring to a non-traveller
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who works in a coal mine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Then I called the collier, and Wulfhere questioned him, and soon was glad as I that I had met with him, saying that in an hour we should be in safety.
A Thane of Wessex 1884
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Macarthur Coal Ltd, raising the ante in the battle for the collier which is now at the centre of three takeover bids.
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Very soon after the pilot left, Captain Henry George Kendall, on his first trip with the Empress, saw a low-lying collier coming up the river.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Well, anyway, it ain't so many years ago that I came ambling in there on a rusty, foul-bottomed, tramp collier from Australia, forty-three days from land to land.
THE HUSSY 2010
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The piece is "a hybrid of traditional British collier band and a symphonic brass section."
A Filmmaker Mines History for Meaning Nicolas Rapold 2011
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It beggars belief that people with little or no operational experience are calling the shots – would you have a shop owner advise a collier how to mine for coal?
Be Carefull What You Wish For « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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We were a tramp collier, rusty and battered, with six thousand tons of coal in our hold.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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Very soon after the pilot left, Captain Henry George Kendall, on his first trip with the Empress, saw a low-lying collier coming up the river.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Very soon after the pilot left, Captain Henry George Kendall, on his first trip with the Empress, saw a low-lying collier coming up the river.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Very soon after the pilot left, Captain Henry George Kendall, on his first trip with the Empress, saw a low-lying collier coming up the river.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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