collier
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)//
- Royaume-Uni//ˈkɔlɪjə(ɹ)//
- États-Unis//ˈkɑliɚ//
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.
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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.
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
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vieilliA person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel). 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.
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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.
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A sailor on such a vessel.
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argotA non-traveller.
Étymologie
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.
Formes
- pluriel
- colliers
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