collier

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col·li·er /ˈkɒliə $ ˈkɑːliər/ noun [countable]  British English old-fashionedBOTI someone who works in a coal mine 煤矿工人

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collier• There were once pitched battles and riotous football matches between colliers and tradesmen around the turn of the last century.• Kingswood colliers into Bristol or those of Bedworth into Coventry.• Some were small colliers, to carry coal to London.• The Earl of Uxbridge attempted to end the coal allowance of his Staffordshire colliers in 1757.• By 1860 the steam colliers were in demand because of their larger capacity and reliability.• In the end the fourteen-stone collier had been glad to see the back of her.• The early style of ships used to move coal in quantity was the collier brig and the collier barque.From Longman Business Dictionarycolliercol‧li‧er /ˈkɒliəˈkɑːliər/ noun [countable] British EnglishJOB someone whose job is to work under ground in a coal mineOrigin collier (1200-1300) coal

col·li·er nounChineseSyllable  

someone who Business Corpus a in works coal

collier
col‧li‧er /ˈkɒliə $ ˈkɑːliər/ noun [countable]British English old-fashioned someone who works in a coal mine

col·lierBrE /ˈkɒliə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkɑːliər/ 🔊 noun(old-fashioned, especially BrE) = coal miner a ship that carries coal 运煤船