coal heaver
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coal heaver
First recorded in 1755–65
Example Sentences
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A foundling, he was adopted as a child by a coal heaver, Manuel Quinquela.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the Patna scandal, Jim works as a coolie and coal heaver.
From Time Magazine Archive
The function of the pedals is as unknown to them as geology is to the coal heaver.
From Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression by Cooke, James Francis
I was fust a coal heaver an' den a coach porter.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Mississippi Narratives by Work Projects Administration
A coal heaver would get from him as polite a bow as a chief justice.
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
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