Definition of Coal miner

1. Noun. Someone who works in a coal mine.

Exact synonyms: Collier, Pitman
Generic synonyms: Miner, Mineworker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coal Miner

coal-tars
coal-whipper
coal-whippers
coal ball
coal bed
coal black
coal car
coal chute
coal drop
coal drops
coal dust
coal gas
coal house
coal industry
coal mine
coal miner (current term)
coal miner's lung
coal mines
coal oil
coal scuttle
coal seam
coal shovel
coal tar
coal tar naphtha
coal tars
coal tit
coal tongs
coal worker's pneumoconiosis
coala

Literary usage of Coal miner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"914; —$7000—coal miner, earning $100 per month—earning capacity almost destroyed, hands, arms, face, neck and back badly burned by exploding mine gas, ..."

2. The Changing Chinese: The Conflict of Oriental and Western Culture in China by Edward Alsworth Ross (1911)
"... of a coal miner Perfected tillage of the valley of an affluent of the Wei River ... coal miner ..."

3. The Past & Present of La Salle County, Illinois: Containing a History of the by H.F. Kett, & co. Chicago (1877)
"Finnegan Hugh, coal miner. Fisher L. laborer. Fisher JW dealer in boots and shoes. ... Force Fred, coal miner. Forney Jerome, works in plow factory. ..."

4. Review of Reviews and World's Work by Albert Shaw (1906)
"One of the first to approach in a scientific spirit the problem of affording protection to the coal miner in his dangerous work was Sir Humphrey Davy. ..."

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