coal minernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkəʊl ˌmaɪ.nər/us/ˈkoʊl ˌmaɪ.nɚ/a person who works in a coal mine removing coal from the ground
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Engineering - mining & quarrying
- borehole
- coal
- coal mine
- digger
- excavate
- extract
- fracking
- gold mine
- gravel pit
- gusher
- hydraulic fracturing
- miner
- mineral
- mining
- oil rig
- opencast
- pit
- quarry
- slag heap
- workings
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Examples from literature
- Coal miners, stunt people, oil platform workers, and zoo keepers can have accidents.
- Crime scene cleaners and stunt people are better paid than coal miners or fish gutters, but is that the most important thing?
- He couldn’t believe how hard it was for the coal miners.
- Less than one-tenth of the coal miners of the country were then organized.
- One hundred thousand or more coal miners obeyed the order to go on a strike.
- Rheumatism, too, is, with the exception of the Warwick and Leicestershire workers, a universal disease of the coal miners, and arises especially from the frequently damp working-places.