collier

noun

1. A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).

   “The Black Dwarfs wear black jackets and caps, are not handsome like the others, but on the contrary are horridly ugly, with weeping eyes, like blacksmiths and colliers.”

   “Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner”

2. (dated, historical)A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).

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

3. A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.

   “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.”

4. A sailor on such a vessel.
5. (slang)A non-traveller.

name

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
2. An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia, United States.
3. A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.