coalowner

English

Etymology

From coal +‎ owner.

Noun

coalowner (plural coalowners)

  1. One who owns a coal mine.
    Hypernym: mineowner
    Coordinate terms: (usually coordinate) coalminer, coalworker
    Near-synonym: collier
    • 1887, Lord Herschell, The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition), Wyman, page 200
      The Staffordshire coalowner would benefit, because he would be saved from the competition of the Lancashire coalowner, but what would the Lancashire coalowner say if he were charged a prohibitive rate with regard to the London market?
    • 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 447:
      Promoted by a group of coalowners who later joined forces with the Barry Railway, the Vale of Glamorgan [Railway] was originally planned to go right up to Tondu, but the G.W.R. succeeded in resisting any incursion beyond Coity Junction.
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