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
Red-bearded son of a Derbyshire collier, he was famed for his sincerity, psychological subtlety.
From Time Magazine Archive
With good-natured truculence the collier turned on him also.
From A Crooked Mile by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Collier posts boomerangs of herself flexing twice a week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
Zecca made his first court appearance at the Collier County Courthouse on Wednesday and is due back for an arraignment hearing in March.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
Ms. Faraci mouthed thank you and rushed inside as Dustin Collier fell out of his desk and crashed into the supply locker where Ms. Faraci stored the volatile chemicals.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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