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ˈcoal-owner The owner of a colliery.
1676Hodgson in Phil. Trans. XI. 764 The waters that..cost our Coal owners so much to be quit of them. 1710Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 596 The coal owners at Newcastle. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxxi. 314 In the north of England a powerful combination has long existed among the coal-owners. |