Collier
/ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/
"Collier" in a Sentence (7 examples)
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.