Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose duty is to pass coal to the furnace of a steam-engine.
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Examples
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He told me of the day coal-passer and the night coal-passer, and of the wages they had received.
Chapter 20 2010
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He served on the U.S.S. _Buffalo_ as coal-passer; was dishonorably discharged for drunkenness.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck
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And there drifted back into my remembrance that night when the Italian coal-passer had come to my bunk and wakened me, that I might come forth with him and observe a certain wonderful cloud-effect about the full, just-risen moon, over Huron ....
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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And there drifted back into my remembrance that night when the Italian coal-passer had come to my bunk and wakened me, that I might come forth with him and observe a certain wonderful cloud-effect about the full, just-risen moon, over Huron ....
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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In a little square hatch the head and shoulders of Mr. Bartholomew McGuffey, chief engineer; first, second and third assistant engineer, oiler, wiper, water-tender, and coal-passer of the _Maggie_, appeared.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918
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He told me of the day coal-passer and the night coal-passer, and of the wages they had received.
Chapter XX 1913
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Larry was made the coal-passer of that watch, and began at once the back-breaking task of shoveling fuel from the bunkers to the floor outside, ready for the stokers to heave into the boilers.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Y.M.C.A. Having this instinct for physical fitness, he had not greatly minded being a coal-passer during the greater part of his stay at Sing Sing; better that than working in the knitting mills; so that now, though underfed and under weight, he was active and hard-muscled.
Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902
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He had thought this out carefully during his days as a coal-passer and his long nights upon the eighteen-inch bunk in his cell.
Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902
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He told me of the day coal-passer and the night coal-passer, and of the wages they had received.
John Barleycorn Jack London 1896
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