coraller

English

Etymology

coral +‎ -er

Noun

coraller (plural corallers)

  1. A person who dives into deep water to collect coral.
    • 1899, William Henry Parr Greswell, The United States and Their Industries, page 180:
      The Bahama corallers come over and collect various kinds of beautiful coral in the Florida seas, known as tree, finger, brain, and red coral.
    • 2011, Shlomo Simonsohn, Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Jews in Sicily, page 434:
      Corals were graded, and fetched prices accordingly. Curiously, the Jewish 'corallers' made even Christian religious objects, such as paternosters and crosses.

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