单词 | coal-man |
释义 | ˈcoal-man 1. A man who has to do with coal: †a. coal-miner; b. coal-seller; c. coal-porter or heaver.
1582Wills & Inv. N.C. (1860) 91 Havinge consideracion, as well upon poore husbandmen..as upon colemen, and other poore of the parishe. 1707Reflex. upon Ridicule 266 The Mercer and the Coal-Man. 1810Crabbe Borough xxiv, Of rent-day charges and of coalman's bills. 1840Thackeray Catherine viii, He carried on the business of..small-coalman. 2. A coal-ship or collier.
1612in Court & Times Jas. I (1849) I. 200 About fifty sail..known to be cast away, especially about Yarmouth, great numbers of fishermen and coalmen. 1881Daily Tel. 28 Jan., The immortal Captain Cook had served his time aboard a coalman. |

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