Someone who works in a coal mine.
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Examples for "collier "
Examples for "collier "
1 Such things brought home to every collier the realities of the situation.
2 The thought of pirates made him reflect again on the collier brig.
3 I know the difference between a collier and a seventy-four, I think.
4 The collier was sunk off Sumatra October 16 by a British cruiser.
5 She was accompanied by the Markommania, a converted liner, as a collier .
1 You see, Portia and I think that coal miner thing's very overdone.
2 Petrosea has a 50 percent stake in local coal miner PT Santan Batubara.
3 Their money had been lent to a coal miner that soon went bust.
4 The Indonesian coal miner announced this deal with CIC in September.
5 And this is the light that every coal miner in West Virginia knows.
1 Here is a Lancashire lass, the daughter of a common pitman .
2 It was a pitman 's song, with a refrain something like this-
3 The pitman stamped across the mash of scales and feather.
4 With a yell, the pitman vaulted onto the fence and grabbed the center post.
5 A Bland-Altman comparison was performed and homogeneity of variances was tested using the pitman test.
6 This crank is connected up by a pitman rod, with the triangularly shaped treadle frame.
7 The pitman , finding nothing, leaned against the pole again.
8 The pitman stood on the railing above the crowd.
9 The pitman usually also doubles as a grinder.
10 But Mihailov and Anna Karenina-thatis, the painter and the painted-seemeddeeply struck by the pitman 's information.
11 Before the unlucky pitman could rise the whole mob had surged over him, amidst shrieks of laughter.
12 The pitman shook the bell rope again.
13 A Durham glossary of 1849 defines bait as "food taken by a pitman to his work".
14 The pitman is reciprocated by a simple treadle motion, which will be readily understood by reference to Fig.
15 Paintings of a colliery and of a miners' pub, by the pitman painter Norman Cornish, hang on the walls.
16 He dressed at all times in the kind of suit which a Northumbrian pitman wears when not actually at work.
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