coal minern.

?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World i. i. 4 Like..Cole-miners about the Rope when the candles burning blew tels the dampe commeth.

1700 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 22 578 Our Cole-miners..when any swoon..dig a hole in the earth and lay 'em on their bellies, with their mouths in it.

1800 R. Jameson Mineral. Sc. Isles I xv. 240 If the soot-like matter is observed, it will be necessary to remark whether it lies upon a declivity or a plain; as inattention to these circumstances has often been the cause of great disappointment and expence to the coal-miner.

1860 All Year Round 12 May 102 Coal-miners are under inspection.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxiv. 671 Coal-dust, giving rise to the anthracosis of coal-miners, seems if anything to be slightly beneficial.., it would seem to protect the miners to some extent from the incidence of tuberculous infection.

1971 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 July w1/1 To work on coal miners' rights for a Washington public-interest law firm.

2007 G. D. Shuman Last Breath vii. 109 A sepia-colored photograph of a dozen black-faced coal miners hung..above the fire-place.