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coalheaver

noun

Etymology

From coal + heaver.

  1. inherited from *kh₂pyéti✻
  2. inherited from *habjaną✻
  3. inherited from *habbjan✻
  4. inherited from hebban
  5. inherited from heven
  6. suffixed as heaver — “heave + er”
  7. compounded as coalheaver — “coal + heaver”

Definitions

  1. One who feeds coal into a furnace.

    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA