- (especially British English, old-fashioned)
a coal miner (= a person whose job is digging coal in a coal mine) 科利尔： 煤矿工人 a ship that carries coal 运煤船
Word OriginMiddle English: from coal + -ier. The original sense was ‘maker of charcoal’, who usually brought it to market, hence ‘person selling charcoal’, later ‘person selling coal’, which gave rise to the current senses.