Collier
['kɒlɪə] or ['kɑljɚ]
Definition
(n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
(n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade.
Typist: Trevor
Definition
n. one who works in a coal-mine: a ship that carries coal: a sailor in such a ship.—n. Coll′iery a coal-mine.
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Examples
- It makes him so much higher in his neighbouring collier's eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was very cold, and, a collier coming by us, with her galley-fire smoking and flaring, looked like a comfortable home. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A journeyman blacksmith, though an artificer, seldom earns so much in twelve hours, as a collier, who is only a labourer, does in eight. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And she knew that under this dark and lonely bridge the young colliers stood in the darkness with their sweethearts, in rainy weather. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He knew the colliers said they hated him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Friday was pay-day for the colliers, and Friday night was market night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Even the keen, short-cut moustache--the colliers would not have that. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gerald was her escape from the heavy slough of the pale, underworld, automatic colliers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gerald was a boy at the time of the strike, but he longed to be a man, to fight the colliers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So the colliers' lovers would stand with their backs to the walls, holding their sweethearts and kissing them as she was being kissed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Everywhere on the Sunday morning, the colliers wandered about, discussing the calamity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He knew his own colliers fairly well. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His managers, who were all rare men, were no more expensive than the old bungling fools of his father's days, who were merely colliers promoted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The colliers shouted to him about his thousands a year. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Under this bridge, the colliers pressed their lovers to their breaSt. And now, under the bridge, the master of them all pressed her to himself? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They were chiefly women, colliers' wives of the more shiftless sort. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Solomon