A man who carries coal from a vessel to a wharf, unloads a coal-truck at a railway station, or, generally, carries coal from the place of unloading to customers.
1834. Poor Law Commiss. 1st Rep. (1885), 199. The Coal-porters earn a great deal.
1889. Daily News, 5 Dec., 6/2. The whole of the coal porters employed in the gas works are also sending in their notices.
1889. Sat. Rev., 14 Dec., 672. If the gas-workers’ and the coal-porters’ union have their way.
