coalowner

plural coalowners

1. One who owns a coal mine.

   Near-synonym: collier

   2 more examples

   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?

   1887, Lord Herschell, The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition), Wyman, page 200

   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.

   1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 447

   Synonyms: collier