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collier

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col·lier  (klyr)
n.
1. A coal miner.
2. A coal ship.
[Middle English colier, from col, coal, from Old English.]
collier
Noun
Chiefly Brit
1. a coal miner
2. a ship designed to carry coal
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.colliercollier - someone who works in a coal mine
coal miner, pitman
miner, mineworker - laborer who works in a mine
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I knew a nobleman in England, that had the greatest audits of any man in my time; a great grazier, a great sheep-master, a great timber man, a great collier, a great corn-master, a great lead-man, and so of iron, and a number of the like points of husbandry.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
Twice Strickland refused a berth on tramps sailing for the United States, and once on a collier going to Newcastle.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
The growing indignation was voiced from time to time in published protests, of which the last, in 1698, was the over-zealous but powerful 'Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage' by Jeremy Collier, which carried the more weight because the author was not a Puritan but a High-Church bishop and partisan of the Stuarts.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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