pitman
noun
a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
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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Etymology
Origin of pitman
Example Sentences
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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
I grab a seat at the counter to watch the pitman, John Talley, at work, mincing and slicing a hot, black-crusted pork shoulder.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2016
Monk describes the labor-intensive cooking process, from the pitman carefully tending the fire to chopping to a texture that’s just right.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2015
Paintings of a colliery and of a miners' pub, by the pitman painter Norman Cornish, hang on the walls.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2013
The pitman silently took it and raised the wick, a grim smile distorting his face as he handed it back.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
"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
He later became a mentor to the likes of Jenny Pitman and dressage Olympian Carl Hester.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
In Pitman, N.J., 32-year-old Catherine Marshall has always known she wanted to be financially independent before potentially choosing to share her life—and her money—with someone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2025
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
From her place Dorothy that moment caught a vision—no less a person than Miss Pitman herself was walking down the corridor.
From A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days by Angela Brazil
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
Its departure was hailed by the shouts and threats of a gang of pitmen from the Blackett colliery, but nothing like another fight occurred, thanks to the vigilance of Fairburn the elder.
From With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne by Herbert Strang
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