The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coal-whipper
Coal-whipper \Coal"-whip`per\, n.
One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. [Eng.]
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
coal-whipper
n. (context UK dated English) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.
Usage examples of "coal-whipper".
Jostling with unemployed labourers of the lowest class, ballast-heavers, coal-whippers, brazen women, ragged children, and the raff and refuse of the river, he makes his way with difficulty along, assailed by offensive sights and smells from the narrow alleys which branch off on the right and left, and deafened by the clash of ponderous waggons that bear great piles of merchandise from the stacks of warehouses that rise from every corner.