Word Meanings - COLLIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal. 2. A vessel employed in the coal trade.

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• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• TRANSPORTABLE
  1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• DIGGERS
  A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.