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

• daughter: Nell was a collier's daughter, Innocent, sweet seventeen Shall I tell you the story of Nellie?

• child: Only 40 colliers ' children, out of 150 now at an age for instruction, attend.