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coalheavers

coalheavers is the plural of coalheaver.

Meaning of coalheaver

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

Questions about coalheavers

What is coalheavers the plural of?
Coalheavers is the plural of coalheaver.

Words near coalheavers in the dictionary

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

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