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Col(e)-, Coil-, Coal-hewar, n. Also: coll-, coall-; -heware, -heuare, -hewer, -houer, -huer. [Cole n.¹ 4, Coll n., Hew v.] A coal-miner, collier.1588 Edinb. Test. XVIII. 252.
James Edmond, coilhewar 1641 Acts V. 419/2.
Act anente coallheuares Ib. 509/1.
Coilhewaris … in coilhewghis within this kingdome 1644 Edinb. Test. LXI. 76.
Michaell Foster, colhewar 1645 Tulliallan Coal Wks. 146 b.
For collhouers and berirs feis 1668 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II. 431.
Iohne Pollock, coallhewer 1706 Coll. Ayr. & W. IV. 219.
Peter Cunninghame, coallhuer