collier
noun
- ship type
- coal miner
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/ / /ˈkɑliɚ/ / /ˈkɔlɪjə(ɹ)/
name
Etymology: Derived from the name of occupation - collier (“charcoal burner”).
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia, United States.
- A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English colier, colyer, alteration of earlier coler, collere (“one who makes or sells charcoal”), from Old English *colere (“collier”), equivalent to coal + -ier.
- A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
“The Black Dwarfs wear black jackets and caps, are not handsome like the others, but on the contrary are horridly ugly, with weeping eyes, like blacksmiths and colliers.”
“Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner”
- A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
“For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.”
- A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
“By 1830, more than two million tons of coal a year, principally from the North East, arrived in London by coastal collier, and that figure reached three million tons by the 1840s.”
- A sailor on such a vessel.
- A non-traveller.