"coal merchant" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: coal merchants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: dated Categories (topical): Coal, Occupations Related terms: coalman
    Sense id: en-coal_merchant-en-noun-cgiNO21d Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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