coal pit

American  

noun

1. a pit where coal is dug.

2. a place where charcoal is made.

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Etymology

Origin of coal pit

before 1050; Middle English colpytte, Old English collpytt

Example Sentences

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coal pit

In Shanxi, the province that sits at the heart of China's coal-mining industry, there's long been a saying: "Only go down a coal pit when you have no other way out."

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

"We may assume that this ship is Roman, but we are unsure of its exact age," he told Reuters at the dusty site hanging precariously above a vast open coal pit.

From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023

Turns out, it was a state-of-the-art coal pit when the home was built.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2020

Deep in an old coal pit in Staffordshire, he recited “Friends, Romans, countrymen…” for his father until the methane in the air made the boy collapse.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2020

There is little more wisdom in the proprietor of an article in popular demand buying or creating a newspaper to contain all his advertisements than in his buying a coal pit for the same purpose.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)