English

Noun

coal-whipper ‎(plural coal-whippers)

1. (Britain, dated) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.
   • Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

     [W]e were in among the tiers of shipping […] [H]ere, were colliers by the score and score, with the coal-whippers plunging off stages on deck, as counterweights to measures of coal swinging up, which were then rattled over the side into barges […]