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
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
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
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Grimes, the collier of Croydon, first made the Croydon colliers famous.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper