Collier

The collier spent his days deep underground, mining coal in dangerous conditions.

A weary collier emerged from the pit, his face blackened with soot and sweat.

The village was built around the mine, and nearly every man there was a collier.

The ship was a collier, built to carry tons of coal along the coast.

Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner

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

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.