| 词汇 | collier |
| 释义 | collier noun[ C ] uk /ˈkɒl.i.ər/ us /ˈkɑːl.jɚ/ formal a coal miner煤矿工人（同 coal miner） a ship used for carrying coal运煤船 Bettmann/GettyImages Engineering - mining & quarrying anti-mine banksman beneficiation biomining coal coal miner coal mining coalface excavator extract mineral mining oilfield OPEC petrodollar pit pithead slag heap strip mining unworked You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Passenger, cargo & military ships collier | Business Englishcollier noun[ C ] NATURAL RESOURCES UKuk /ˈkɒliər/us a person who works in a mine removing coal from the ground Examples of colliercollier References to affrays with poaching colliers frequently appear in the portraits of gamekeepers in this journal. Since the introduction of regulation in 1850, occupational mortality had steadily improved amongst colliers. In the course of this inspection a shaft collapses, trapping him and fourteen colliers. On the contrary, it makes no provision for farmers, colliers, common laborers, carters, and carpenters without whom there would be no commonwealth at all. The specific vulnerability of colliers is certainly not a new phenomenon. Serious incursions from the colliers occurred in 1727, 1731, 1735 and 1738. However, this differential is more pronounced among labourers and colliers, suggesting that, at the lower social levels, harsher conditions preyed more on the vulnerable and sharpened this selective effect. Although the number of vessels engaged in the trade shrank somewhat, the sailing colliers which had been around 100 tons in the seventeenth century were averaging 312 by 1730. The colliers' skill, seniority and, even, knowledge of technical terms are often not transferable from pit to pit, let alone village to village, district to district, or coalfield to coalfield. Furthermore, colliers evidence the greatest mortality differential, a feature which may tend to confirm the hypothesis that, as a group, they suffered the long-term latent penalties of heavy labour. Discharging colliers took up wharfage. The similarities in terms of economic and cultural outlook and behaviour between the colliers and their labouring counterparts demonstrated in the preceding sections inevitably draw attention to issues of class. Weavers had been involved in major disturbances in 1729-30 and 1735, and colliers on a number of occasions following the introduction of turnpikes in 1727. There was apparently little to separate these colliers and their labouring colleagues in terms of the nature, location and meaning of some of the most popular pastimes. In mining areas many miners and colliers worked at the pit head or as time keepers. See all examples of collier These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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