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  collier

  noun

  a ship for carrying coal.
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  Collier

  noun

  Jeremy, 1650–1726, English clergyman and author.

collier

¹ American  

[kol-yer] / ˈkɒl jər /

noun

1. a ship for carrying coal.

2. a coal miner.

3. Obsolete. a person who carries or sells coal.

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Collier ² American  

[kol-yer] / ˈkɒl jər /

noun

1. Jeremy, 1650–1726, English clergyman and author.

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collier British  

/ ˈkɒlɪə /

noun

1. a coal miner

2. 1. a ship designed to transport coal

   2. a member of its crew

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Etymology

Origin of collier

1300–50; Middle English coliere; see coal, -ier ¹

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Example Sentences

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My grandfather had been a collier in northern England, my father a career Marine sergeant.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021

The Bywell Castle ploughed straight into the starboard side of the Princess Alice, which weighed less than a third of the 890-ton collier.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2018

It's thought the pub's strange name derives from the fact that a collier - a ship carrying coal - from Whitby in North Yorkshire used to moor regularly beside the pub.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2017

Some statements by Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy: At present there is only one aircraft carrier in the Navy, the Langley, which is the collier Jupiter remodeled.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oncost, on′kost, n. all charges for labour in getting mineral, other than the miners' wages: payment to the collier in addition to the rate per ton.—n.pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Chris Collier, who has been contacted for comment, will now sit as an independent cabinet member on the Labour-Green alliance that was formed to run the council in May 2023.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Monique Collier, 37, a firefighter in the Washington, D.C., area, used to do 100 curls a week, but has since dropped down to 48 hammer curls once a week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Collier, the litigation over conditions at the Wallace Pack Unit that settled in 2018.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

To the book’s heartsick narrator, Louise Brown, the man who embodies those old-fashioned virtues is Claude Collier, the 27-year-old layabout scion of an aristocratic New Orleans clan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Samuel Collier, by then a grown man, was recognized for his knowledge, skills, and ability to communicate with the natives in their own language.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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