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The collier or collyer was the labourer who cut the timber, stacked it in heaps, charked it, and conveyed the coal on pack-horses to the iron bloomary and forge, situated in some neighbouring valley, where a stream of water gave motion to the bellows and the tilt-hammer.
The Coal Question~ Of the Iron Trade William Stanley Jevons 1865
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Twa-three year ago, some o 'the collyer bodies were choked to death down below wi' a blast of foul air; and a pour o 'orphan weans they left behint them on the cauldrife parish.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Twa-three year ago, some o 'the collyer bodies were choked to death down below wi' a blast of foul air; and a pour o 'orphan weans they left behint them on the cauldrife parish.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Codex - Recent changes [en] Lu collyer 2009
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For those who don't know about the collyer brothers:
Latest Articles 2009
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Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Doctorow's Bleak House 2009
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Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Doctorow's Bleak House 2009
sionnach commented on the word collyer
An apartment excessively packed with junk, trash, or belongings.
Derived eponymously from the Collyer brothers:
pack rats
October 27, 2008
dontcry commented on the word collyer
I shall, henceforth, refer to my daughter's bedroom as "the collyer." Thanks, 'nach!
October 27, 2008
bilby commented on the word collyer
Uselessness has a list - not unabridged, of course - of items found in the Collyers' apartment.
October 27, 2008
dontcry commented on the word collyer
Yep. That's about right. She's modeled her bedroom after her father's garage...
October 27, 2008