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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.
  • DIGGERS
    A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
  • MAKED
    Made. Chaucer.
  • 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.

 

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