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collier

1

[ kol-yer ]

noun

  1. a ship for carrying coal.
  2. a coal miner.
  3. Obsolete. a person who carries or sells coal.


Collier

2

[ kol-yer ]

noun

  1. Jeremy, 1650–1726, English clergyman and author.

collier

/ ˈɒɪə /

noun

  1. a coal miner
    1. a ship designed to transport coal
    2. a member of its crew
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of collier1

1300–50; Middle English coliere; coal, -ier 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of collier1

C14: from coal + -ier
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Jung’s interpolations are perhaps an improvement on the real first lines — an elaborate play on “collier” and “choler” — though specificity of acting and direction would have put the language across.

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My grandfather had been a collier in northern England, my father a career Marine sergeant.

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It was painted by Dutch artist Albert Houthuesen who was fascinated with the working life of the colliers in Trelogan, Flintshire, while on holiday in the area with his wife in the 1930s.

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Many were paid more, too: At boarding school they had received vocational training that qualified them for better billets, as carpenters’ mates, shipwrights, blacksmiths, electricians and colliers, among others.

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Huge numbers of trees had to be cut down and burned in specially built mounds by “colliers” to make charcoal, which was hauled to the furnace for fuel.

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