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A collier is someone who works in a coal mine — a coal miner. In older English it also meant a person who made or sold charcoal. It is mainly a British word, and it can sound a little old now; people more often say coal miner. You still meet it in history, in mining towns, and as a family name (Collier). Though actually, older books may also use collier for a ship that carries coal, but the meaning you are learning here is the miner. Do not mix it up with , the dog.
煤礦工人（偏英式；美式多說 coal miner）
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Colliername
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A surname originating as an occupation.
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An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia, United States.
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A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
colliernoun/ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/
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A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
- 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.
- Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner
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datedhistoricalA person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
- For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.
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nauticaltransportA 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.
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nauticaltransportA sailor on such a vessel.
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slangA non-traveller.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。