coal-heavern.

Brit.

/ˈkəʊlˌhiːvə/, U.S.

/ˈkoʊlˌhivər/

Forms: see coal n. and heaver n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: coal n., heaver n.

Etymology: < coal n. + heaver n. Compare earlier collier n.

Now chiefly historical.

A person employed in moving or carrying coal.Sometimes: spec. a dock worker (cf. heaver n. 1) who unloads coal by shovelling it in stages from the lower levels of a ship up to the deck.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > person who

bearereOE

portera1382

carriera1398

load-man1487

coal-heaver1654

light porter1772

toter1817

packer1871

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

1654 N. Culpeper Ephemeris for 1654 11 He having no more right to the place, then a Plowman or a Coleheaver hath to a Crown.

1710 Rev. State Brit. Nation 22 June 147/1 The poor Labourers, Keelmen and Coal-Heavers.

1763 Brit. Mag. 4 555 A horrid murder..committed on a poor old coal-heaver.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 127 Coal-heavers..exercise a trade which in hardship..almost equals that of colliers.

1846 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) ix. 93 Burly coalheavers.

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 258/1 The coalheavers, properly so called, are now no longer known in the trade... Formerly the coals were delivered from the holds of the ships by the labourers shovelling them on to a series of stages, raised one above the other till they ultimately reached the deck.

1884 Times 4 Feb. 7/1 His cousins..were coal-heavers in Paris.

1925 L. O'Flaherty Informer iv. 51 I though ye were Jim Delaney, the coalheaver.

1949 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 11 Nov. The Wembley Lions goalkeeper..looks like a sporting Daniel Lambert:..his catching-glove is the size of a coal-heaver's cape.

1984 Mariner's Mirror 70 432 The coalheavers were on strike and we had to coal ship ourselves.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	coal-heaver
释义	coal-heavern. Brit. /ˈkəʊlˌhiːvə/, U.S. /ˈkoʊlˌhivər/ Forms: see coal n. and heaver n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: coal n., heaver n. Etymology: < coal n. + heaver n. Compare earlier collier n. Now chiefly historical. A person employed in moving or carrying coal.Sometimes: spec. a dock worker (cf. heaver n. 1) who unloads coal by shovelling it in stages from the lower levels of a ship up to the deck. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > person who bearereOE portera1382 carriera1398 load-man1487 coal-heaver1654 light porter1772 toter1817 packer1871 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 1654 N. Culpeper Ephemeris for 1654 11 He having no more right to the place, then a Plowman or a Coleheaver hath to a Crown. 1710 Rev. State Brit. Nation 22 June 147/1 The poor Labourers, Keelmen and Coal-Heavers. 1763 Brit. Mag. 4 555 A horrid murder..committed on a poor old coal-heaver. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 127 Coal-heavers..exercise a trade which in hardship..almost equals that of colliers. View more context for this quotation 1846 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) ix. 93 Burly coalheavers. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 258/1 The coalheavers, properly so called, are now no longer known in the trade... Formerly the coals were delivered from the holds of the ships by the labourers shovelling them on to a series of stages, raised one above the other till they ultimately reached the deck. 1884 Times 4 Feb. 7/1 His cousins..were coal-heavers in Paris. 1925 L. O'Flaherty Informer iv. 51 I though ye were Jim Delaney, the coalheaver. 1949 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 11 Nov. The Wembley Lions goalkeeper..looks like a sporting Daniel Lambert:..his catching-glove is the size of a coal-heaver's cape. 1984 Mariner's Mirror 70 432 The coalheavers were on strike and we had to coal ship ourselves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1654
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