coal-whippingn.

1829 P. Egan Boxiana 2nd Ser. II. 410 We would..advise Whittle to stick to coal-whipping in future.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 95/2 He had met with an accident..which prevented him from following coal-whipping any longer.

1887 R. Newman in Charity Organisation Rev. July 275 Coal-whipping..has now all but ceased.

1986 Econ. Hist. Rev. 39 363 At the beginning of the eighteenth century..gangs of coalheavers..cast coal out of the hold into barges with their shovels. Around the mid-century coal heaving began to be superseded by coal whipping.

2004 W. Baker & I. Nadel Redifining Mod. 72 Dickens specifies coal-heaving, which involved shoveling by hand coal from the holds of colliers rather than coal-whipping, a relatively easier process, using buckets, ropes, and pulleys.