coaler

Anthracite cargo ship

A coaler is a ship, train, or vehicle designed to transport coal, or a worker who loads or supplies coal.

The term belongs to an era when coal powered industry and transportation: The coaler pulled into port to offload its cargo.

A coaling station was a depot where steam-powered vessels took on fuel.

vessel

ship

Seagoing transport vessel

cargo · bunker · harbor · dock · port · maritime · naval · fleet · voyage · seaborne

industrial

furnace

Enclosed heat-producing structure

railway · stoker · fireman · tender · bunker · power station · gasworks · ironworks · steelworks · smelting

mining

miner

One who excavates ore

  • pitmanUnderground mine worker
  • shaftNarrow vertical passage
  • tunnelEnclosed underground route

gallery · drift · underground · headlamp · helmet · pickaxe · shovel · extraction · excavation · methane

historical

Victorian

Of a prim era

navvy · dockworker · longshoreman · wharf · labor · trade · union · strike · working class · soot

Opposites
cargo type

coaleroil tanker

Vessel transporting liquid fuel

tanker · container ship · oiler · petroleum tanker · passenger ship

Phrases
Family

coal, charcoal, coals, coalfield, coalmine, coalman, coaling, coalminer, coalhouse

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