coal portern.
/ˈkəʊl ˌpɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈkoʊl ˌpɔrdər/ Now chiefly historical.
A person employed in carrying or unloading coal.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who carry coal
coal carrier1596
coal-bearer1606
coal-heaver1654
coal porter1711
coaly1820
coal backer1834
1711 J. Whalley Petition (single sheet) It is the undoubted Right of the Subject..to Petition as well in the Coal-Porter's as in your Petitioner's Case.
1768 B. Franklin Let. 14 May in Papers (1972) XV. 127 A great mob of coal porters fill the street.
1834 Poor Law Commiss. 1st Rep. 187 The coal-porters earn a great deal.
1889 Daily News 5 Dec. 6/2 The whole of the coal porters employed in the gas works are also sending in their notices.
1961 Past & Present 20 85 In the early twenties, the Ribbonmen led by a Dublin coal porter, Michael Keenan, envisaged a countrywide rising against the government.
2011 Daily Mail (Nexis) 5 Nov. His granddaughter..remains extremely proud of the coal porter who joined the East Surreys in 1915.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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