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 Translation for 'collier' from English to French
ADJ   colly | collier | colliest
NOUN   a collier | colliers
SYNO coal miner | collier | pitman
minesoccup.
mineur {m} de fond
collier
naut.
charbonnier {m} [bateau]
collier [coal ship]
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Translation for 'collier' from English to French

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collier
mineur {m} de fondminesoccup.
collier [coal ship]
charbonnier {m} [bateau]naut.
  • collier {m} = necklace
  • collier {m} = garland
  • collier {m} [de tuyau] = pipe-collar
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Usage Examples English
  • A collier from Aberaman who later became a policeman before becoming a collier once more, he played club rugby as a forward for Treherbert RFC but was wounded badly at the Battle of the Somme, leaving injuries that affected his health throughout the rest of his life.
  • USS "Vulcan" (Collier No. 5/AC-5) was a collier of the United States Navy.
  • HMAS "Biloela" was a fleet collier operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1920 to 1927.
  • After returning to England "Borrowdale" served as a collier.
  • The "John Bowes" was the first purpose-built steam collier, although the steamship "Bedlington" of 1841 carried coal before she did, but the "Bedlington" carried it in railway wagons as a railway ferry, not as a collier.

  • William Dunbar (1852 (or 1853) – 1874) was a Gateshead songwriting collier who died at the age of 21.
  • The track "The Wood Collier's Grave" was inspired by the headstone of 17th century collier (professional charcoal-burner) George Yardley, discovered by Hawley on one of his country walks.
  • A collier by trade, he worked down the Nine Mile Point Colliery and in 1935 he was one of the 164 men who took part in the stay-down strike against scab labour.
  • On 29 June 1896 The iron collier "Merksworth" collided with Pyrmont Bridge in Sydney and sustained considerable damage.
  • Miller was a collier by trade, working at Nixon's Navigation Colliery in Mountain Ash, and was described as "a stalwart specimen of the Welsh collier".

  • SS "Fireside" was a 2,717 GRT collier launched in March 1942 by S.P. Austin & Son.
  • The bottles were carried to London on 'bottle sloops', slightly smaller than collier brigs, about [...] long.
  • "Empire Bay" was a [...] collier. The entire crew were rescued alive.
  • They included the William Cory & Son collier SS "Vernon" in the North Sea off Spurn on 31 August 1917 and the Witherington and Everett Steam Ship Company collier SS "Lightfoot" in the English Channel off Selsey Bill on 16 March 1918.
  • ] collier [...]. Early that morning the collier was intercepted by the Russian destroyers [...] and [...] off of Kirpen island and sunk.

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