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Collier

//ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)// name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia, United States.
  3. 3
    A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).; A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.

    "Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner"

  2. 2
    someone who works in a coal mine wordnet
  3. 3
    A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).; A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal. dated, historical

    "For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order."

  4. 4
    A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.

    "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."

  5. 5
    A sailor on such a vessel.
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  1. 6
    A non-traveller. slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Derived from the name of occupation - collier (“charcoal burner”).

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