collier

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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

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

He was deeply impressed by the tragedy of the Empress of Ireland, which had collided with a Norwegian collier in 1914 and with water pouring into her hold had capsized.

From Time Magazine Archive

Banks′man, an overseer at a pit-mouth.—From bank to bank, from the time the collier begins to descend the pit for his spell of work till he reaches the top again.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various