A person or business that sells coal, especially in smaller quantities to households and local customers.
Coal + monger (from Old English mangere 'trader/merchant'). The monger suffix, meaning 'dealer in,' appears in fishmonger, warmonger, etc. Coalmongers were common urban figures before modern heating.
Coalmongers were once as common as today's oil delivery people—their soot-covered carts rumbling through streets provided the fuel that literally powered the Industrial Revolution!
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