collier.
A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
Meaning & usage
A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel). A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.
A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel). A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.
A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
A sailor on such a vessel.
A non-traveller.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English colier, colyer, alteration of earlier coler, collere (“one who makes or sells charcoal”), from Old English *colere (“collier”), equivalent to coal + -ier.
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