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
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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
In the kitchen, the pitman is chopping up shoulders, the exteriors crusty and copper-colored, the interiors spilling rivulets of juice.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2015
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
It stands on a pedestal, at the respective corners of which are sculptured the recumbent figures of a pitman, a mechanic, an engine-driver, and a plate-layer.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
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
Now she has finished her A-levels, Megan Pitman hopes to study in Aberystwyth.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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
"We're well dear o' the fleet, anyway," said Disko, "Carrie Pitman an' all."
From Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
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
Paying tribute to several dead pitmen buried at Newton parish church, they remembered the miners' strike nearly 30 years ago which had put scores of local men on the dole.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 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
Then he astonished the pitmen by attaching an alarum to the clock of the watchman whose duty it was to call them betimes in the morning.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
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