coalpit

IPA: kˈoʊɫpɪt

Examples of "coalpit" in Sentences

The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
In November 1791 Federalist Fisher Ames wrote that “tranquility has soothed the surface” but “faction glows within like a coalpit”; before the end of January 1792 he was saying, “I do not believe that the hatred of the Jacobites toward the House of Hanover was ever more deadly than that which is borne by many of the partisans of State power towards the government of the United States.”