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

It looked to him as though the collier was heading straight for the smaller boat but he thought little of it, having faith the Bywell Castle would alter its path.

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

Endeavor, a fat British collier fitted out as a naval vessel and dispatched in 1768 to explore the Pacific.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearer home I doubt if the proximity of a Leith collier would have appealed strongly to our patriotism.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart