collier

Meanings

1. A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
2. A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.
3. A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.
4. A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
5. A sailor on such a vessel.
6. A non-traveller.

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
2. An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia, United States.
3. A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Etymology

From Middle English colier (“charcoal burner”), from col (“coal”) + -ier.

Translations