Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The young coalfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
delivers coal . - noun Someone who sells coal.
- noun A coal
miner (as distinguished from other type of miners).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who delivers coal
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Examples
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In the meantime, Avni approached the engine car and ordered the engineer and the coalman to get out and lie on the ground as far as possible from the train.
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"We will blame the coalman," Sophia said cheerfully.
Irresistible Balogh, Mary 1998
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This morning there had been some problem with the coalman, who had tried to deliver enough coal for a winter month when it was already April.
Irresistible Balogh, Mary 1998
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If Samuel had not yelled out 'Oi!' quite so loud when the coalman come and tried to pull one over on him, ma'am, I would not have dropped the cup.
Irresistible Balogh, Mary 1998
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Well, I did some enquiring and quickly discovered that, although it has been some time since the coalman delivered bags of coal and dumped them on a conveyor belt that carried it through a window in the side of the house to the coal bin, coal is still very much in use in energy production, steel production and in many other areas of heavy industry.
The Reordering of Planet Earth: The Development of Rational Policies in a Shrinking World 1991
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Your washerwoman is a lady, and your coalman a Chesterfield.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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At one place he carried on the business of greengrocer and small-coalman; in another, he was carpenter, undertaker, and lender of money to the poor; finally, he was a lodging-house keeper in the Oxford or Tyburn
Catherine: a story 1839
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At one place he carried on the business of greengrocer and small-coalman; in another, he was carpenter, undertaker, and lender of money to the poor; finally, he was a lodging-house keeper in the Oxford or Tyburn Road; but continued to exercise the last-named charitable profession.
Catherine: a Story William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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When a light was brought, and he saw my black face and garb of a coalman, he experienced such an increase of terror, that I really believe he imagined himself in the devil's clutches.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821
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He was the odd job man in queens buildings and before that was a coalman
London SE1 community website tone 2010
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