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colliery|ˈkɒlɪərɪ|
Also 7 collyery, colyery, 8 collery, coalliery.
[f. collier + -y: see -ery; cf. also the form coalery.]
1. A place where coal is worked; a coal-mine.
1635Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 85 Besides great collieries employed for the use and supply of the commons and poor of the town. 1648Rushw. Hist. Coll. iv. II. 1219 An extraordinary Storm..which..hath drowned Two of the best collyeries upon Sunderland River. 1676Hodgson in Phil. Trans. XI. 764 The water that runs from the adjacent Colyeries is vitrioline. 1708J. C. Compl. Collier (1845) 10 Your ground borders on other Colleries, which are working Colleries. 1799Scotl. Descr. 102 Its coallieries, its traffic, its various manufactures. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 172 It was not..until 1238 that the first collieries were established on the high grounds in the neighbourhood of Newcastle.
†2. The working of a coal-mine. Obs.
1708J. C. Compl. Collier (1845) 10 To explain the whole art of Collery. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. i. iii. (1743) 9 The colliery here is brought to..perfection.
†3. The coal trade. Obs.
1673H. Stubbe Further Vind. Dutch War To Rdr. 2 Of our inferiour Commerce, what have we but the Colliery, and Fishing of New-found land.
†4. The ships employed in the coal trade; also, one such vessel. Obs.
1722De Foe Plague (1884) 280 Among the Colliery, that is to say, among the Ships. 1763Churchill Duellist iii. (R.), The master, or by courtesy The captain of a colliery.
†5. (See quot.) Obs.
1708–15Kersey, Collery, a Store-house of Coals. 1721–1800in Bailey.
6. attrib., as colliery act, colliery club, colliery district, colliery explosion, colliery inspector, colliery manager, colliery owner, colliery trade, colliery yard; colliery viewer = coal-viewer.
1786Act 26 Geo. III, c. 41 Any such..may..sail in the Colliery Trade. 1849F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers i. (1851) 30 Joseph Locke, a colliery-viewer..had served his apprenticeship below ground. 1852J. Glynn Power of Water (Weale) 119 By profession a ‘colliery viewer’. 1863Trans. Assoc. Coal Miners 10 They had colliery clubs established in their district..The Educational Clause of the Colliery Act operated favourably. 1866W. Begbie Wks. (1883) 254 Who has recently resided in a colliery-district. |