1. collier - Noun
2. collier - Adjective
Derived from colly
3. Collier - Proper noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAfter 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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
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". Source: Internet
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". Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet