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coal-whipper

coal-whipper noun: one who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.

Noun

coal-whipper (plural coal-whippers)

  1. (UK, dated) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.
    • [W]e were in among the tiers of shipping […] [H]ere, were colliers by the score and score, with the coal-whippers plunging off stages on deck, as counterweights to measures of coal swinging up, which were then rattled over the side into barges […]1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XV, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 238

Forms of coal-whipper

pluralcoal-whippers

Questions about coal-whipper

What does coal-whipper mean?
Coal-whipper means one who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.
What part of speech is coal-whipper?
Coal-whipper is a noun.
What is the plural of coal-whipper?
The plural of coal-whipper is coal-whippers.

Words near coal-whipper in the dictionary

  1. coal-scuttle bonnet
  2. coal-scuttle bonnets
  3. coal-smoke
  4. coal-tar
  5. coal-tars
  6. coal-whipper
  7. coal-whippers
  8. Coal.
  9. coala
  10. coalas
  11. coalbacker

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