coal merchant

English

Noun

coal merchant (plural coal merchants)

  1. (dated) A person who deals in coal, either on a large scale or in a particular locality, where coal was weighed and bagged by the merchant, delivered to households and tipped into a coal bunker.
    • 1941 June, “Some Early Welsh-Built Engines”, in Railway Magazine, page 247:
      It would seem that the Speedwell was built during the first half of 1830, for the Monmouthshire Merlin of June 12, 1830, said: "Mr. Prothero, one of the most extensive coal merchants in that district, intends hauling his coal to Newport with two engines, preparing for him at the Neath Abbey Iron Works."
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