English Dictionary

collier

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/

名詞

俗語 トラベラーコミュニティ用語

A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce. / (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.

日本語の意味

石炭や木炭を生産（採掘または製炭）する事業に従事する人 / 石炭の輸送や商取引に従事する者 / 石炭を積んで運搬する船（石炭運搬船）

The old collier told stories of the mine's dangerous shafts to anyone who would listen.

年配の炭坑夫は、聞きに来る人には誰にでも坑道の危険についての話をしていた。

意味（1）

A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce.

For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.

意味（2）

(nautical) 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.

意味（3）

(nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.

意味（4）

(slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.

colliers （ plural ）