collier
collier
Definition
collier
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- become: Some were drawers before, and are now become colliers.
- name: About four hours later he was apprehended by a collier named Curtis as he walked on the bowling green.
- work: At the height of its production, coal was brought directly to Wandsworth from Newcastle on the Gas works own steam colliers.
- employ: The population consists chiefly of colliers employed in the mines of the parish.
- have: We have about 500 colliers working under this arrangement, with which they are quite satisfied.
Converse of subject
- inhabit: It is inhabited principally by colliers, sailors, and fishermen.
- occupy: It is one of a few small villages in the parish, chiefly occupied by colliers.
Adjective modifier
- old: The children are badly off at school; there is no appointed teacher - an old well-informed collier gives lessons to young ones.
- young: Young colliers begin work at six years of age " ( Ibid.
- few: There are few colliers from other parts of the parish listed in the records at this time.
- small: In those days it was a place of work with small colliers beaching themselves ( deliberately ) as the tide ebbed to off-load coal.
Modifies a noun
- brig: In London, the term " sea-coal " once meant coal shipped to London River in Tyne collier brigs from innumerable Tyne coal staithes.
- population: By an act of Parliament passed on the 13th June, 1799, the collier population were freed from their servitude.
- fleet: It has been under the ownership of various fuel importers through the years and was a regular calling point for the Kelly collier fleet.
- ship: The Llanelly Guardian reported that in 1874 a dozen collier ships were loaded in one week, including one from Cardigan.
- boy: Formal photograph of group of miners and colliers boys sitting on the ground holding their safety lamps.
Noun used with modifier
- steam: By the 1860s most coal carried to London came by steam colliers, with sailing vessels picking up the pieces.
- sailing: As the sailing colliers tended to arrive en masse on a favorable wind, the river became clogged.
Possessives
Browse dictionary entries near collier
- collie
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- collider
- collided
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- collet
- collenchymatous
- collenchyma
- collembolan
- collegiums
- collieries
- colliery
- colligate
- colligated
- colligating
- colligation
- collimate
- collimated
- collimating
- collimation
