English Dictionary

collier

/ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/

noun

A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce. / (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.

She wore a beautiful collier to the party.

意味（1）

A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce.

For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.

意味（2）

(nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.

By 1830, more than two million tons of coal a year, principally from the North East, arrived in London by coastal collier, and that figure reached three million tons by the 1840s.

意味（3）

(nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.

意味（4）

(slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.