Collierとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 colier (“charcoal burner”), from col (“coal”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) enPR: kälʹē-ər, IPA: /ˈkɑliɚ/

名詞

collier (plural colliers)

1. A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
   1. A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.

      Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner

   2. (dated or historical) A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.

      Synonym: charcoal burner

      • 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.

   Synonym: coaler

   Coordinate terms: oiler, oil tanker

   • 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.

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参考

参照

• “collier” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Coriell