EGAVE

collier

About 2.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.
  4. noun A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
  5. noun A sailor on such a vessel.
  6. noun A non-traveller.

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Word family

Collier Jeremy Collier John Payne Collier Peter Fenelon Collier colliers

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