collier
noun
a ship for carrying coal.
collier
1 American
[kol-yer]
/ ˈkɒl yər /
noun
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a ship for carrying coal.
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a coal miner.
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Obsolete. a person who carries or sells coal.
Collier
2
American
[kol-yer]
/ ˈkɒl yər /
noun
collier
British
/ ˈkɒlɪə /
noun
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a coal miner
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a ship designed to transport coal
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a member of its crew
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Etymology
Origin of collier
Vocabulary lists containing collier
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
The sea was flat, the weather fair on March 4, 1918, when the Navy's 19,360-ton collier Cyclops put out of Barbados for Baltimore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her bows were lumbered with ice feet thick, and from stem to stern there was no more liveliness in the good Arrandoon than there is in a Dutch collier.
From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Stables, Gordon
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