coal heaver
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coal heaver
First recorded in 1755–65
Example Sentences
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After the Patna scandal, Jim works as a coolie and coal heaver.
From Time Magazine Archive
A foundling, he was adopted as a child by a coal heaver, Manuel Quinquela.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a tall man, and was just then very wet, and as black as any coal heaver.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
In England it not unfrequently happens that a tinker or coal heaver hears a sermon or falls in with a tract which alarms him about the state of his soul.
From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
My! but I thought I’d split my sides to see you puttin’ him where he belonged, and you lookin’ like a coal heaver.
From Hepsey Burke by Westcott, Frank N. (Frank Noyes)
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