Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One engaged in breaking into convenient size the larger masses of coal as they come from the mine, or in attending upon a machine used for that purpose.
- noun A machine for breaking coal; by extension, the whole structure or building in which the various processes of breaking, sorting, and cleaning coal are carried on.
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Examples
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Sabbath-breaker can beat any coal-breaker in Pennsylvania & give it 30 in the game.
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So, after winning a reluctant consent from his mother, Derrick began to earn thirty-five cents a day, at that hardest and most monotonous of all forms of youthful labor, picking slate in a coal-breaker.
Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe
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The billiard-table as a Sabbath-breaker can beat any coal-breaker in
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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The billiard-table as a Sabbath-breaker can beat any coal-breaker in
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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The billiard table, as a Sabbath breaker can beat any coal-breaker in
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872
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The billiard table, as a Sabbath breaker can beat any coal-breaker in
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) Mark Twain 1872
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