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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining coal or making charcoal) or in its transporting or commerce. 2 (context nautical English) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal 3 A nickname used by the traveller community, referring to a non-traveller
WordNet
See colly
n. someone who works in a coal mine [syn: coal miner, pitman]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 144536
Land area (2000): 2025.341438 sq. miles (5245.610020 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 279.585724 sq. miles (724.123671 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2304.927162 sq. miles (5969.733691 sq. km)
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 26.155113 N, 81.671313 W
Headwords:
Collier, FL
Collier County
Collier County, FL
Wikipedia
Collier or colliers may refer to:
A collier is a bulk cargo ship designed to carry coal, especially for naval use by coal-fired warships.
Coaling at sea was critical to navies and speed of coal transfer was an important metric of naval efficiency. In 1883, forty tons an hour was considered fast and it would take over twelve hours to restock half the bunkers of a typical ship, HMS Collingwood (1882).
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 advertising entrepreneur
- Barry Collier (basketball coach), Athletic Director, Butler University
- Barry Collier (politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Miranda in 1999
- Bill Collier (1921–2015), Australian rugby league footballer
- Bobby Collier (1929–2000), American football player
- Celester Collier, American basketball coach
- Charles Collier (1848–1900), American banker and lawyer
- Christopher Collier (cricketer) (1888–1916), an English cricketer
- Christopher Collier (historian) (b. 1930), an American historian and author
- Constance Collier (1878–1955), British-born American film actress
- David Collier (sports administrator) (b. 1956), chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board
- David Collier (cartoonist) (b. 1963), Canadian alternative cartoonist
- David Collier (political scientist), expert on qualitative methodology and Latin American politics
- David Charles "D. C." Collier, San Diego real estate developer, general manager of the Panama California Exposition
- Edward Collier (pirate), 17th century
- Elisha Collier, inventor of the flintlock revolver
- Evert Collier (c. 1640–1708), Dutch painter
- Francis Augustus Collier (1783-1849), Royal Navy rear-admiral
- Frank Collier, former British rugby league footballer
- George Collier (1738–1795), Royal Navy vice-admiral
- Sir George Collier, 1st Baronet (1774–1824), Royal Navy officer
- Giles Collier
- Harry Collier (1907–1994), Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League
- Henry Herbert Collier (d. 1926), British motorcycle pioneer
- Henry W. Collier (1801–1855), Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1849–1853)
- Ian Collier (d. 2008), British actor
- James Collier (1872–1933), an American politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi
- James Lincoln Collier (b. 1928), journalist and writer
- Jason Collier (1977–2005), NBA basketball player
- Jeremy Collier (1650–1726), English theatre critic
- John Collier (Pre-Raphaelite painter) (1850–1934), a Pre-Raphaelite painter
- John Collier (fiction writer) (1901–1980), British author and screenplay writer
- John Payne Collier (1789–1883), a British Shakespearean critic
- Jonathan Collier, American television writer
- Laurence Collier (1890–1976), British ambassador to Norway (1939–1950)
- Lois Collier (1919–1999), American film actress
- Lou Collier (b. 1970), American baseball player
- Marie Collier (1927–1971), Australian operatic soprano
- Mark Collier (actor) (b. 1971), American stage and television actor
- Mark H. Collier, former president of Baldwin-Wallace College
- Marsha Collier, American author and radio personality
- Mary Collier (c.1688–1762), English poet
- Michael Collier (disambiguation), several people
- Norman Collier (1925–2013), British comedian
- Patience Collier (1910–1987), British actress
- Paul Collier, British author and Professor of Economics at The University of Oxford
- Paul Collier (activist)
- Paul Collier (snooker referee)
- Peter Collier, Australian politician
- Peter Collier (political author) (b. 1939), American writer
- Peter Fenelon Collier (1849–1909), Irish publisher, father of Robert Joseph Collier
- Philip Collier (1873–1978), former Premier of Western Australia
- Robert Collier (author) (1885–1950), American author of self-help, and New Thought metaphysical books
- Robert Joseph Collier (1876–1918), American publisher, son of Peter Fenelon Collier
- Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell (1817–1886), English judge and politician
- Ron Collier (1930–2003), Canadian jazz trombonist
- Sophia Collier, founder of the American Natural Beverage Corp
- Tim Collier, Rugby Player
- Tom Collier, American musician
- William Collier, various people
Collier (first name and dates unknown) was an English first-class cricketer who was active in the 1780s. He played for Kent and was recorded playing for Kent against White Conduit Club at Bishopsbourne Paddock in August 1786, scoring 14 and 35.
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.