n. A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining coal or making charcoal) or in its transporting or commerce.
n. A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal
n. A nickname used by the traveller community, referring to a non-traveller
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A digger of coal; one who works in a coal-mine.
n. A coal-merchant or dealer in coal.
n. A coasting-vessel employed in the coal-trade.
n. The gaper, Mya truncata, a bivalve mollusk.
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n. someone who works in a coal mine
Word Usage
"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."