collier

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'What is that A tub that sails like a collier, and which, instead of taking him to Jerusalem, will hardly take him to Newcastle Lord Eskdale was right.

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  1. noun A coal miner.
  2. noun A coal ship.

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  1. Middle English colier, from col, coal, from Old English.

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  1. Also coalier, coallier, conformed to coal, but the vowel is properly short; earlier modern English colier, from Middle English colyer, colier, from col, coal, + -yer, -i-er, as in lawyer, sawyer, bowyer: see coal. Cf. Middle Low German kolere = Middle High German koläre, German köhler.
 

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/ˈkɑlyər/
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