collier

IPA: kˈɑɫjɝ

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.

Examples of "collier" in Sentences

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.