pitman
noun
a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
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pitman
1 American
[pit-muhn]
/ ˈpɪt mən /
noun
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pitmen,
plural
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pitmans
plural
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a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
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Machinery. any of certain types of connecting rods.
Pitman
2
American
[pit-muhn]
/ ˈpɪt mən /
noun
Pitman
1
British
/ ˈpɪtmən /
noun
pitman
2
British
/ ˈpɪtmən /
noun
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Towering over a high street in a former mining heartland, a statue of a pitman reminds Cornwall of its industrial past.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2023
Besides the wood itself, there’s the cost of paying a pitman to stay up all night to feed the fire, keep it steady — and make sure it doesn’t burn the place down.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2015
Other new material includes a sturdy treatment of The Trimdon Grange Explosion, by the 19th-century "pitman poet" Tommy Armstrong, and the lengthy, elaborate, four-part Father's Suite, which includes brass-and-piano compositions from Rachel's husband, Adrian McNally.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012
Customers order at the counter, where a pitman slices their meat on a big butcher block and serves it on brown butcher paper, just like at Kreuz.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2011
One end of the saw is connected with a pitman moved by a crank, and receiving its motion from the main axis, by one or two sets of cog wheels.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Follett Lamberton Greeno
Petrified, she recruited two charismatic friends as alternating sidekicks: daycare owner and activist Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and civil rights attorney Florynce Kennedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
"No doubt a State possesses legitimate power to protect children from harm, but that does not include a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed," Pitman wrote.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
And there was defeat for Bryony Pitman in the women's individual archery, losing 6-0 to China's Li Jiaman.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2024
District Judge Robert Pitman ordered 17 books returned to Kingsland library shelves while a citizen lawsuit against book banning proceeded.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
The general scheme was arranged by Sir Gilbert Scott, but the medallions were designed by the Rev. J. Pitman, headmaster of Rugeley Grammar School.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton
About 30,000 engineering workers from factories in the surrounding area joined the pitmen outside the Saltley Gate coke works, which held a stockpile of coal used to fuel power stations.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2022
The pledge translated into newsreel shots of bricklayers building council houses, pitmen washing in new pithead baths, a doctor taking a child's temperature.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2013
Sauce just covers up bad barbecue, Texas pitmen say.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2011
While thrilled with introducing the story of the pitmen to their countrymen, three of the actors used the word “ecstatic” to describe their feelings of taking the play to Broadway.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2010
The Fairburn pitmen had declined to be mixed up in the quarrel, as they called it.
From With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne by Herbert Strang
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