Collier vs. Miner

Colliernoun

A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce.

Colliernoun

(nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.

Colliernoun

(nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.

Colliernoun

A non-traveller.

Colliernoun

One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

Colliernoun

A vessel employed in the coal trade.

Colliernoun

someone who works in a coal mine

Colliernoun

a coal miner.

Colliernoun

a ship carrying coal.

Minernoun

A person who works in a mine.

Minernoun

An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.

Minernoun

Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.

Minernoun

Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.

Minernoun

(computing) Software that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.

Minernoun

One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.

Minernoun

Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.

Minernoun

laborer who works in a mine

Minernoun

a person who works in a mine

Minernoun

a person who obtains units of a cryptocurrency by running computer processes to solve specific mathematical problems

Minernoun

a person who dug tunnels in order to destroy an enemy position with explosives.

Minernoun

a small South American bird of the ovenbird family, which excavates a long burrow for breeding.

Minernoun

short for leaf miner

Minernoun

an Australian bird of the honeyeater family, having a loud call.

Miner

A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining. There are two senses in which the term is used.