collier

From Middle English colier, from col (“coal”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: kälʹē-ər, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑliɚ/

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The S.S. Wandle, a British collier, arriving on her maiden voyage at the Pool of London in London, England, UK

collier (plural colliers)

1. A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 224:

     For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.

2. (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
   • 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:

     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.

3. (nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
4. (slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.

• Colliers Wood
• colliery

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• Coriell

collier c

1. indefinite plural of collie

Inherited from Old French coler, from Late Latin collāre.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lje/

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collier m (plural colliers)

1. a necklace, string-shaped jewel worn around the neck
2. collar (e.g. of a dog)
3. collar (on animals, colored fur around the neck)

• collier de perles
• couleuvre à collier

• cou m, col

• → German: Kollier, Collier n
• → Greek: κολιέ m (kolié, “necklace”)
• → Romanian: colier n (“necklace”)
• → Russian: колье́ n (kolʹjé, “necklace”)
• → Turkish: kolye (“necklace”)

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• “collier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French collier.

collier m (invariable)

1. a necklace, string-shaped jewel worn around the neck

• collo m

collier

1. indefinite plural of collie

Borrowed from French collier.

collier c

1. a choker