Collier

Definitions

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
2. A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
3. A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.
4. An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia, United States.
5. A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.
   dated, historical
6. A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
7. A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
8. A sailor on such a vessel.
9. A non-traveller.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner”

“For this reason⟳, the collier took constant care to keep⟳ the covering of earth in good order⟳.”

“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.”

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