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coalheaver

coalheaver noun: one who feeds coal into a furnace.

Noun

coalheaver (plural coalheavers)

  1. One who feeds coal into a furnace.
    • ...but rheumatism is a vulgar complaint, and would sink even a ducal coronet—the very lowest people have it. I question if there is a workhouse in Great Britain exempt from it. Neither is there one free from asthma, and yet all the world knows a royal duke suffers from it as much as a coalheaver...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 74
    • It was a hot night, and the dust of Limpet's fanlight covered him like a garment, and streaked his countenance like a coal-heaver's.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 91

Forms of coalheaver

pluralcoalheavers

Origin of coalheaver

From coal + heaver.

Questions about coalheaver

What does coalheaver mean?
Coalheaver means one who feeds coal into a furnace.
What part of speech is coalheaver?
Coalheaver is a noun.
What is the plural of coalheaver?
The plural of coalheaver is coalheavers.

Words near coalheaver in the dictionary

  1. Coalford
  2. Coalgate
  3. coalgebra
  4. coalgebraic
  5. coalgebras
  6. coalheaver
  7. coalheavers
  8. coalheaving
  9. coalhod
  10. coalhods
  11. coalhole

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