The colliers tried to keep the Cornish miners out of the coal pits.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
The colliers, with all their dark retinue, were to bring destruction from Wednesbury.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
Three large steam-colliers are to be used for the ocean transport of the coal.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash