collier

Noun

1. A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
   • 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. - 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology,...
   • Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner

   Synonyms: coalminer coalworker coalowner mineowner

   1. 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. (dated or historical) A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.

      • For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order. - 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 224:

      Synonyms: charcoal burner

2. 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. - 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St...

   Synonyms: coaler

   Coordinate Terms: oiler oil tanker

3. A sailor on such a vessel.
4. A non-traveller.