collier

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/|/ˈkɔlɪjə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈkɑliɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).; 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.
    — The Black Dwarfs wear black jackets and caps, are not handsome like the others, but on the contrary are horridly ugly, with weeping eyes, like blacksmiths and colliers.
  2. A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).; A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal. dated,historical
    — For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.
  3. A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
    — By 1830, more than two million tons of coal a year, principally from the North East, arrived in London by coastal collier, and that figure reached three million tons by the 1840s.
  4. A sailor on such a vessel.
  5. A non-traveller. slang

词形变化

colliers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
grim-the-collier
相关词
Collier Street Colliers Wood colliery mineral coal seacoal collie

词源

From Middle English colier, colyer, alteration of earlier coler, collere (“one who makes or sells charcoal”), from Old English *colere (“collier”), equivalent to coal + -ier.
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