collier
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1. collier - Noun
2. collier - Adjective
Derived from colly
3. Collier - Proper noun
Meaning
One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
A vessel employed in the coal trade.
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After passing his examinations in 1752, he soon progressed through the merchant navy ranks, starting with his promotion in that year to mate aboard the collier brig Friendship.
Additionally, a possible association with Shakespearean forger John Payne Collier has served to undermine its authenticity, whilst some scholars believe it depicts a play other than Titus Andronicus, and is therefore of limited use to Shakespeareans.
As the historian E. P. Thompson has put it, Paine "ridiculed the authority of the Bible with arguments which the collier or country girl could understand".
Chandler (2011) p. 200. Two years of intense work had left her exhausted, however, and her friend Constance Collier wrote that Hepburn was "on the verge of a nervous breakdown".
Anniversary Supplement vol. 27, no. 9, Part 2 (1934): 10-13 Collier was later criticized for his romantic views about the moral superiority of traditional society as opposed to modernity.
But Shaun Collier, the mayor of Ajax, which neighbours Pickering and the development, said he’s not sure any conditions will be requested once the approvals are already in place.