pithead
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pithead
Example Sentences
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The iconic image of Shaft XII’s pithead is scattered throughout the city of Essen as an unofficial trademark of the Ruhr region.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 4, 2022
In view of the pithead, rail trucks bulging with the stuff rattle across the Hatfield estate, bound for Drax, Europe’s biggest coal-fired power-station.
From Economist ● Jun. 25, 2015
The blast had brought the whole community to the pithead.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2013
George Camsell, a Middlesbrough legend whose talents were first spotted - according to the Observer's Paul Wilson - at a "pithead kickabout during a miners' strike", banged home nine hat-tricks in the 1925-26 campaign.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2011
Besides attending to the underground arrangements, the improved transit of the coals above-ground from the pithead to the shipping-place, demanded an increasing share of his attention.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
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