coal-whipper

noun

One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.

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Meanings

nouncoal-whipper (plural coal-whippers)

plural coal-whippers

  1. UKdatedOne 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
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