coal whipper (kolhwiper)

One who raises coal from the hold of a ship in unloading it; a coal-heaver. Coal-whippers are now being superseded by machinery, which executes the work both more cheaply and more expeditiously. [Eng.] The swarthy demon-like coal- whippers i uing from those blok arches in the Strand. M. W. Savage, Reuben Medlicott, i. 3. coal-whpping (kōl'hwip"ing), n. The act of raising oal from the hold of a ve el. coal-wrkings (kōl'wėr kingz), n. sing . or pl . A coamine; a place where coal is raised. At last ve reached the coal - workings, and a more deserted, mancholy-looking place for a mine I have never Ansted, Hungary, p. 124. seen. IMG:content-0691.png:[ocr errors] bulan (t-) s, ppr. of coambulare, walk together,