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collier
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By 1860 the steam colliers were in demand because of their larger capacity and reliability. ▪ In the end the fourteen-stone collier had been glad to see the back of her. ▪ Kingswood colliers into Bristol or those of Bedworth ...
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collier \Col"lier\, n. [OE. colier. See Coal .] One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal. A vessel employed in the coal trade.
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Collier is an English surname. People with this name include: Anne Collier (b. 1970), American visual artist Arthur Collier (1680–1732), English philosopher Austin Collier (1914–1991), English professional footballer Barron Collier (1873–1939), American ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., collere "charcoal maker and seller," agent noun from Middle English col (see coal ). They were notorious for cheating their customers. Sense of "ship for hauling coal" is from 1620s.
Usage examples of collier.
I composed the other day, on a charming Ayrshire girl, Miss Leslie Baillie, as she passed through this place to England, will suit your taste better than the Collier Lassie, fall on and welcome.
White House Deseret was a phrase, and a concept, deeply satisfying to many men in the Collier administration.
Mira Amelia was his technical specialist, and Kellie Collier was copilot.
Marcel would certify Kellie Collier as fully qualified for her own command.
Islas Piedras, the losses on both sides, and the necessary tactics they wanted Collier and Simpson to undertake.
He would show Collier the newest photos of Islas Piedras, proof that the Russians knew there was little left for the United States to bluff with.
Coalson, in a way to indicate that they might have been, like himself, Collier, Thomas, Hatherly, Beauchamp, and Andrews, also of the original Merchant Adventurers, but no proof that they were such has yet been discovered.
Colliers at the front, the other three at the back, first Krystal Kent, then Dave Atkins and the grubby little teenager who went by the name of Susan Sunshine.
When it was fine, he would go into the street, squat on his heels as colliers do, with his back against the wall of his parlour, and call to the passers-by, in greeting, one after another.
There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away.
And all over the countryside were these same pits, some of which had been worked in the time of Charles II, the few colliers and the donkeys burrowing down like ants into the earth, making queer mounds and little black places among the corn-fields and the meadows.
Morel lay in bed, listening to the rain, and the feet of the colliers from Minton, their voices, and the bang, bang of the gates as they went through the stile up the field.
So the colliers found their women had a new standard of their own, rather disconcerting.
The colliers of the five pits were paid on Fridays, but not individually.
They stayed indoors till the colliers were all gone home, till it was thick dark, and the street would be deserted.