collier

Example Sentences

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My grandfather had been a collier in northern England, my father a career Marine sergeant.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

The Bywell Castle ploughed straight into the starboard side of the Princess Alice, which weighed less than a third of the 890-ton collier.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2018

It's thought the pub's strange name derives from the fact that a collier - a ship carrying coal - from Whitby in North Yorkshire used to moor regularly beside the pub.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2017

With seven volunteers aboard the stripped old collier Merrimac* he steamed up to the harbor in the dark of the moon on June 3.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was my lot, on this occasion, to be put on board a small and ill-shaped collier brig, called the Jane of Shields, but the master I have forgot.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William