coal heaver

noun

1. a person who carries or shovels coal.

coal heaver

noun

1. a workman who moves coal

Word History and Origins

Origin of coal heaver¹

First recorded in 1755–65

Example Sentences

He was drinking beer like a coal-heaver, and yet you couldn't but perceive that he was a gentleman.

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In this rickety, filthy, old tenement the coal-heaver rented two rooms on the third floor.

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It is somewhere said in that work that the wife of a coal-heaver is more respectable than the mistress of a prince.

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He said he would have been a coal-heaver rather than be dependent upon his relations.

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He once hired himself as a potman, and then as a coal-heaver.

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