Collier vs. Miner — What's the Difference?

A coal miner.

A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining. There are two senses in which the term is used.

A ship carrying coal.

A person who works in a mine

A coal miner.

A person who dug tunnels in order to destroy an enemy position with explosives.

A coal ship.

A small South American bird of the ovenbird family, which excavates a long burrow for breeding.

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

Short for leaf miner

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

An Australian bird of the honeyeater family, having a loud call.

(nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.

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

A non-traveller.

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

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

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

A vessel employed in the coal trade.

(Zoology) A leaf miner.

Someone who works in a coal mine

A person who works in a mine.

An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.

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

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

(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