collier

Definition

A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).

Etymology

From Middle English colier (“charcoal burner”), from col (“coal”).

Example Sentences

• "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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