Definitions
Worker in a coal mine or ship used to carry coal.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“The Black Dwarfs wear black jackets and caps, are not handsome like the others, but on the contrary are horridly ugly, with weeping eyes, like blacksmiths and colliers.”
“Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner”
“For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Coal miner”7 letters
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