Thesaurus results for COLLIER

collier

noun

as in steamship

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Recent Examples of collier McKinney’s Bloem collier was the centerpiece, an asymmetrical botanical design. —

Julia Teti, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026 Emory, who lives about a half-hour from the forge, was able to trace her ancestry to Robert Patterson, a free African American with ties to Catoctin who worked as a collier, producing the charcoal used to run furnaces, and who also owned a farm. —

Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 3 Aug. 2023 On the way home, the collier made a stop (some say unplanned) in Barbados for coal. —

Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023 Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. —

The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022

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Noun

That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
There was no direct overland route, so cross-country mail got routed via steamship around South America.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026