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collier

noun

Definition of collier

as in steamship

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Recent Examples of collier Sotheby’s will offer Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu assis au collier (Seated Nude with Necklace), 1917, later this month. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026 Holmes elevated her look by wearing nearly $80,000 worth of Arielle Ratner jewels, including the statement diamond Gatsby earrings and the diamond Gatsby collier. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 21 May 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 last pandemic was accelerated by a boom in rail and steamship travel but was eventually quashed by advances in science.

— Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
Passenger boats have not passed through these parts since the days of the steamship petered all the way out some 60 years ago.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of steamship

Noun

Kemetale This boutique operator, which launched in 2022 with the Kemet Dahabeya, has small-scale ships that take their cues from the traditional dahabeah, a kind of sailing barge.

— Susan B. Barnes, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2026
Men stand on the side of a barge in New York Harbor holding a rope attached to a wooden crate from which Harry Houdini was trying to escape July 7, 1912.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of barge

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Mouthwashing follows five crew members stranded aboard the space freighter Tulpar, which crash lands on an asteroid.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026
While the pic’s storyline is under wraps, the game follows five crew members who are stranded aboard the space freighter Tulpar, where dwindling supplies, isolation and mounting paranoia expose the fractures between them.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of freighter

Noun

When the cutter arrived at Mona Island, the situation was chaotic and complex.

— Pedro Portal, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
As a seventh-round draft choice out of Northeastern, Schlittler wasn’t always throwing gas with a devastating curveball mixed in with a cutter and sinker.

— Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of cutter

Noun

In another incident from Tuesday, the UKMTO said an unnamed tanker was struck by a projectile in the Persian Gulf.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Nov. 2026
Nearly 200 people were on board the cruise ship, American Heritage, when the Atlantic Asphalt tanker collided with it, according New Orleans officials.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2026

Definition of tanker

Noun

With traders hopeful the stock market has set the stage for a short-term bounce, there are two catalysts next week that could either revive or snuff out the AI recovery.

— Sarah Min, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2026
As the board deliberates, Wall Street analysts and traders on prediction-market platforms are throwing out names of possible successors.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of trader

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