Collier vs. Miner: What's the Difference?

A coal miner.

One whose work or business it is to extract ore or minerals from the earth.

A coal ship.

A machine for the automatic extraction of minerals, especially of coal.

A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce.

A soldier, often a specialist, engaged in mining operations.

(nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.

(Zoology) A leaf miner.

(nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.

A person who works in a mine.

A non-traveller.

An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.

One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.

A vessel employed in the coal trade.

Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.

Someone who works in a coal mine

(cryptocurrency) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency; someone engaged in mining.

One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.

Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.

Laborer who works in a mine