coal heaver

a person who carries or shovels coal.

Origin of coal heaver

First recorded in 1755–65

The coal-shed is made tidy and swept up, and the coal-heaver awaits his company.

Great Musical Composers |George T. Ferris
My wish is that my husband,—should I ever have one,—should work, not exactly as a coal-heaver.

Phineas Finn |Anthony Trollope
But he was born the son of an earl, and the coal-heaver propensities had been trained and trimmed in patrician fashion.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 |Various
Didnt you say that Mr. Railings mother was the widow of a coal-heaver?

The Bishop's Apron |W. Somerset Maugham

I've heard him call her names that would frighten a coal-heaver.

The Small House at Allington |Anthony Trollope

coal heaver

a workman who moves coal