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coal-whippers

coal-whippers is the plural of coal-whipper.

Meaning of coal-whipper

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

Questions about coal-whippers

What is coal-whippers the plural of?
Coal-whippers is the plural of coal-whipper.

Words near coal-whippers in the dictionary

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

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