coal ownern.
/ˈkəʊl ˌəʊnə/, U.S. /ˈkoʊl ˌoʊnər/ Now chiefly historical.
The owner of a coal mine.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > owner or manager of coal-mine
coal owner1595
coalmaster1639
butty1828
keeler1860
1595 in R. H. Tawney & E. Power Tudor Econ. Documents (1924) 283 Thre or fower of the ritcher sorte of the said Coleowners.
?1649 T. Saunders Answer to Pamplet called ‘A Remonstrance’ (single sheet) Once he was a Cole-filler himselfe, but now a Cole-owner.
1676 D. L. Hodgson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 764 The waters that..cost our Coal owners so much to be quit of them.
1710 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 596 The coal owners at Newcastle.
1785 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 797/1 A monopoly..which prevented all the coal-owners of the kingdom from extracting tar and pitch from their coal.
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xxix. 260 A powerful combination has long existed amongst the coal-owners in the north of England.
1899 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 124 Coalowners cannot work their mines without hewers and winders.
1922 G. M. Trevelyan Brit. Hist. 19th Cent. ix. 154 Great noblemen who were also great coalowners, working their own mines.
1985 P. Cooke in D. Gregory & J. Urry Social Relations & Spatial Structures x. 226 An indicator of the acceptance within the wider community of the privileged status of the coal-hewer was the fact that he frequently received a rent-free house from the coal-owner.
2006 Garden Hist. 34 130/1 (note) Sir Edward Blackett's father had been a wealthy merchant and coal owner of Newcastle upon Tyne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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