collier
IPA: kˈɑɫjɝ
noun
- A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce.
- (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
- (nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
- (slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia, United States.
- A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Examples of "collier" in Sentences
- The collier boat is laden with coal.
- I regret the comment in the Collier section.
- The system was awarded the Collier Trophy in 2001.
- This design led to the award of the Collier Trophy of 1933.
- The artist John Collier was the younger son of the first Baron.
- Collier Trophy sites do not give the specifics of the achievement.
- The Collier material is a good example of the perils of quote mining.
- Collier was called to the bar in 1843, and went on the western circuit.
- Collier's attack occasioned a widespread, often vituperative controversy.
- Collier patrolled the Mississippi River until the end of the American Civil War.
- We were a tramp collier, rusty and battered, with six thousand tons of coal in our hold.
- The piece is "a hybrid of traditional British collier band and a symphonic brass section."
- Macarthur Coal Ltd, raising the ante in the battle for the collier which is now at the centre of three takeover bids.
- Very soon after the pilot left, Captain Henry George Kendall, on his first trip with the Empress, saw a low-lying collier coming up the river.
- Then I called the collier, and Wulfhere questioned him, and soon was glad as I that I had met with him, saying that in an hour we should be in safety.
- It beggars belief that people with little or no operational experience are calling the shots – would you have a shop owner advise a collier how to mine for coal?
- Well, anyway, it ain't so many years ago that I came ambling in there on a rusty, foul-bottomed, tramp collier from Australia, forty-three days from land to land.