collier
noun
a ship for carrying coal.
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collier
1 American
[kol-yer]
/ ˈkɒl jər /
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 jər /
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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My grandfather had been a collier in northern England, my father a career Marine sergeant.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
It looked to him as though the collier was heading straight for the smaller boat but he thought little of it, having faith the Bywell Castle would alter its path.
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
He caught a collier, three hundred miles away, and a United States gunboat, one hundred and sixty miles distant, but, try as he would, there was nothing nearer.
From Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator by J. W. Duffield
Collier, the litigation over conditions at the Wallace Pack Unit that settled in 2018.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
The Lynx will be without Napheesa Collier until June, meaning the Lynx are going to have to find new ways to score.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
Grammy Award-winning artist, composer and producer Jacob Collier has told the BBC that singing together can combat social isolation in young people and "bypass the artificial digital boundaries created around us".
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
The moment Mom got home from work on Friday, I told her that I was going to a concert with Radar and then proceeded to drive out to rural Seminole County to see Collier Farms.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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