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单词 collier
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colliern.

Brit. /ˈkɒlɪə/, U.S. /ˈkɑljər/
Forms: Middle English kolier, cholier, Middle English colyȝere, colȝer(e, coliare, coler, Middle English–1500s colyer, colier, ( coilȝear), 1500s colyar, coliar, 1500s–1600s colliar, collyer, (1700s coallier), 1500s– collier.
Etymology: Middle English colier , colyer , etc., < col, coal n., apparently after words from French in -ier suffix. The Scots coilȝear , and other Middle English spellings, imply that the o was then long; collier with short o , appears to be later: compare colly adj., colly v.1
I. One whose occupation or trade is to procure or supply coal (formerly charcoal); one engaged in the coal trade.
1. A maker of wood charcoal (who also was often the bringer of it to market). Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other manufactured materials > [noun] > of charcoal
coaler1276
colliera1375
coalmana1450
wood-coaler1600
charcoal-collier1636
coalburner1636
charcoal-burner1825
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2523 Þe kolieres bi-komsed to karpe kenely i-fere.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2520 Choliers þat cayreden col come þere bi-side.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 87 Colyer [v.r. colyȝere, coler], carbonarius.
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1844) 328 Item to the colyer for makyng of coleys ij.s.
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Bviv When none but pore Colyars dyd wyth coles mell.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 321 Then the Coilȝear..Went to the Charcoill in hy, To mak his Chauffray reddy.
1573 Treat. Arte of Limming 7 Take Hartes horne, and burne it to cole on a Coliars harth.
1608 T. Ball in Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. I. 130 To be at bristow with a reffiner and a hammer man and 8 or 10 colliers.
2.
a. One who carries coal (originally charcoal, later also pit-coal) for sale. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of coal
collier1479
coal monger1665
coalman1706
1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 425 All maner of colyers that bryngeth coleys to towne.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxv/1 And where as the Colyers be founde false that they may be punessed & theyr sackes brent.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. H.iijv When colliers put, no dust into their sacks.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 8 Feb. (1970) III. 25 All the morning..with the Colliers, removing the Coles out of the old coal-hole into the new one.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 198 A Collier with his Cart, that Coals was used to carry.
b. A coal-dealer or owner. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in coal
wood-coaler1600
collier1625
coal merchant1645
coal fitter1655
coal monger1665
coal factor1715
coal vend1906
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 208 I knew a Nobleman..A Great Timber Man, A Great Colliar, A Great Corne-Master, A Great Lead-Man.
3. Often used with allusion to the dirtiness of the trade in coal, or the evil repute of the collier for cheating: cf. Greene's Coosnage of Colliers (1591). Obsolete.
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?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j Smoggy colyers, and stynkynge gonge fermers.
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 93 (R.) As the sayinge is, lyke wyl to lyke, as the deuyl fyndeth out the colyer.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 116 What man, tis not for grauity to play at cherrie pit with sathan Hang him foul Colliar.
1622 T. Gataker Spirituall Watch 67 (T,) A man shall hardly come with fair apparell amongst colliers, but he shall carry some of their soil away from them.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 99 He could transform himself in Colour As like the Devil as a Collier.
1732 in Fuller Gnomol. (Hazl. Eng. Prov. 1869) Like a collier's sack, bad without, but worse within.
4. One who works in a coal-mine; a coal-miner.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner
coalman1582
collier1594
coal miner?1609
coal-worker1638
coal-pitter1720
1594 Newcastle Munic. Acc. (1849) 33 Paide for letting fourthe coliers at Pilgrim streete gate..earlie in the morninge to worke, 2s. per pece each on.
1665 D. Dudley Mettallum Martis sig. B7 Colliers have gotten coles again, in those same Pits.
1741–3 J. Wesley Jrnl. (1749) 95 I went to Southbiddick, a village of colliers, seven miles south-east of Newcastle.
1799 Scotl. Descr. 198 Villages..inhabited by..coalliers and lime-burners.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 88 They are..not good in jewelry or mosaics, but the best iron-masters, colliers, wool-combers, and tanners, in Europe.
1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. ii. iv. 162 A collier proverbially earns higher wages than even many skilled workmen in his own district.
II. transferred.
5.
a. A ship engaged in the carriage of coal. Earlier collier-ship. Also attributive.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying coal
coal ship1541
coalman1612
collier-ship1639
colliera1661
coal barge1720
colliery1722
coal-smack1747
spout vessel1821
Geordie1849
collier-brig1853
a1661 J. Glanville Voy. Cadiz (1883) 11 With all the Colliers or New-Castell shipps in the ffleete.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 3 Jan. (1972) VI. 3 The Dutch have taken some of our Colliers to the north.
1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 224 The ship was no other than a light collier.
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xii. 224 The coal which loads a single large collier would, when it existed as wood, have built many large colliers.
b. One of the crew of such a vessel.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on other types of craft
brigantiner1555
gondolier1603
collier1716
Greenlandman?1785
junkman1795
surfman1816
Whitehaller1824
gig1833
yawler1833
coracler1834
keel-boatman1839
square-rigger1855
surf boatman1856
skiffman1868
flatman1883
yawlsman1885
packet rat1887
hookerman1894
scooterist1919
launchman1924
sampan-wallah1932
tanker man1932
hydrocyclist-
1716 J. Arbuthnot To Mayor & Aldermen City of London: Humble Petition 1 So considerable a branch of the Coasting Trade, as that of the Colliers.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxv I'm an old collier.
6. The swift ( Cypselus apus). dialect.
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1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 313 Collier, hirundo apus, the black swallow, or swift.
1855 in F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words
7. A species of Aphis; also collier-aphis, collier-fly.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis
cantharidesa1398
blackfly1652
greenflya1680
green louse1682
green bug1704
collier1742
puceron1744
plant louse1763
aphis1771
leaf louse1774
smother-fly1785
tree-louse1797
ant cow1875
aphid1884
stilt-bug1895
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June vi. 75 It's called the Collier-fly, because it turns black.
1784 Ann. Agric. 2 51 Collier, an insect, ‘the black dolphin’.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
collier-boy n.
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1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies v, in Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 103/2 The butties that knock about the poor collier-boys.
collier-brig n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying coal
coal ship1541
coalman1612
collier-ship1639
colliera1661
coal barge1720
colliery1722
coal-smack1747
spout vessel1821
Geordie1849
collier-brig1853
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > combining qualities of two types > brig or brigantine
vergantine1578
demi-galliot1632
brigantine1695
brig1720
cutter-brig1805
collier-brig1853
jackass brig1878
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House i. 1 Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs.
collier-ship n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying coal
coal ship1541
coalman1612
collier-ship1639
colliera1661
coal barge1720
colliery1722
coal-smack1747
spout vessel1821
Geordie1849
collier-brig1853
1639 J. Woodall Viaticum (new ed.) in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) Pref. sig. ¶2v To each new Castle-ship or Colliars-ship serving in his Highnesse his affaires etc.
b.
collier-built adj.
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1878 E. J. Trelawny Rec. Shelley, Byron (1887) 198 She was a collier-built tub of 120 tons.
C2.
collier-man n. the captain of a coal-ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master > of specific type of vessel
shouterc1325
patron?a1425
trowman1429
balinger-master1463
Master of the Barge1480
wafter1482
bargemaster1648
trierarch1656
hoyman1666
collier-master1723
country captain1769
slave-captain1808
grocery-captain1816
hide-drogher1841
pentecontarch1851
collier-man1881
1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. The collierman's chart is the coast.
collier-master n.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master > of specific type of vessel
shouterc1325
patron?a1425
trowman1429
balinger-master1463
Master of the Barge1480
wafter1482
bargemaster1648
trierarch1656
hoyman1666
collier-master1723
country captain1769
slave-captain1808
grocery-captain1816
hide-drogher1841
pentecontarch1851
collier-man1881
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 52 The Masters of Coal Ships, who they call Collyer Masters.
collier's faith n. [ < medieval Latin fides carbonarii, German köhlerglaube] uninquiring or unreasoning assent to the prevalent religious tenets; blind faith.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > [noun] > unreasoning
collier's faith1581
society > faith > aspects of faith > superstition > [noun]
superstitionc1384
superstitiosity1485
collier's faith1581
superstition1609
night-philosophy1677
1680 Observ. ‘Curse Ye Meroz’ 6 [He] proceeds to talk of Faith..but possibly 'tis the Colliers Faith he means all this while.]
1581 M. Hanmer Iesuites Banner K ij b Not hanging with the colliers fayth upon the sleeueless coate of the Romish Church.
1603 H. Chettle Englandes Mourning Garment sig. D4v Onely of the faith that the Colliar profest, which was euer one with the most. [See the story 1624 Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. iv. ii. vi. 551.]]
collier's lung n.
collier's phthisis n. a fibroid phthisis common with coal-workers, characterized by the deposit of carbon in a finely granular condition in the tissue of the lungs.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by dust or fibre
stone-cutter's disease or phthisis1540
phthisis1821
black lung1837
anthracosis1838
shoddy fever1851
potter's consumption1863
siderosis1869
collier's phthisis1871
iron lung1872
chalicosis1878
pneumonoconiosis1878
tabacosis1879
byssinosis1881
pneumoconiosis1881
silicosis1881
potter's rot1895
fur-fever1905
stonemason's lung1905
asbestosis1927
anthracosilicosis1929
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis1935
bagassosis1941
bagasse1943
berylliosis1943
thesaurosis1958
1871 T. Watson Lect. Physic (ed. 5) II. 251 [The disease] has been sometimes called spurious melanosis sometimes Collier's Phthisis.
collier-woman n. a woman that works in 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 > boy, girl, or woman
collier-woman1798
pit-boy1842
pit-girl1863
1798 R. Southey Eng. Eclogues ii Blear-eyed Moll The collier woman.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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