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- noun Plural form of
collier .
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Examples
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"Yes, lass; it's only a nickname the old tub got in the north, where they call the colliers coal-coffins, 'cause it's ten to one you'll go to the bottom in 'em every time ye go to sea."
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You don't think all the colliers are the same, all over the country?
Touch and Go 1907
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The colliers are the worst for that; they just go straight on, and expect you to get out of the way, and don't mind a rap about the rule of the road or anything else.
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Commercial production was first done in pits covered with dirt by specially trained craftsmen called colliers.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Meathead 2011
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She dazzled her way through India and Indonesia in elaborate colliers and she debuted a pretty cool rope necklace in Newark on Thursday at Maple Avenue School.
Michelle Obama Has A Necklace Moment (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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She dazzled her way through India and Indonesia in elaborate colliers and she debuted a pretty cool rope necklace in Newark on Thursday at Maple Avenue School.
Michelle Obama Has A Necklace Moment (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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She dazzled her way through India and Indonesia in elaborate colliers and she debuted a pretty cool rope necklace in Newark on Thursday at Maple Avenue School.
Michelle Obama Has A Necklace Moment (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In retirement he wrote two scholarly books, Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster (1997), an account of the pit explosion that killed 266 colliers in north Wales in 1934, and The Vaccination Controversy: The Rise and Fall of Compulsory Vaccination (2007).
Stanley Williamson obituary Chris Hall 2010
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Although Eliza liked it when the coal boats came in at high water, the watermen rowing people back and forth, the lighters bringing in cargo from the colliers, it was low tide when the river really came to life.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Although Eliza liked it when the coal boats came in at high water, the watermen rowing people back and forth, the lighters bringing in cargo from the colliers, it was low tide when the river really came to life.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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