Collier

·noun A vessel employed in the coal trade.

II. Collier ·noun One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

Collier, Jeremy
(1650-1726) Church historian and controversialist, b. at Stow, Cambridgeshire, ed. at Ipswich and C...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin