coal heaver
a person who carries or shovels coal.
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How to use coal heaver in a sentence
He was drinking beer like a coal-heaver, and yet you couldn't but perceive that he was a gentleman.
A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 | William Makepeace ThackerayIn this rickety, filthy, old tenement the coal-heaver rented two rooms on the third floor.
The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant | Alexander Johnstone WilsonIt is somewhere said in that work that the wife of a coal-heaver is more respectable than the mistress of a prince.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques RousseauHe said he would have been a coal-heaver rather than be dependent upon his relations.
Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service | Charles James LeverHe once hired himself as a potman, and then as a coal-heaver.
Club Life of London, Volume II (of 2) | John Timbs
British Dictionary definitions for coal heaver
a workman who moves coal
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