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