pitman
IPA: pˈɪtmʌn
noun
- (plural "pitmen") One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
- (plural "pitmen" or "pitmans") A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill.
- A surname.
- A place name:
- A hamlet in the rural municipality of Redburn No. 130, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, named after the Rev. Charles Pitman.
- An unincorporated community in Eldred Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Examples of "pitman" in Sentences
- Houghton-le-Spring, in the occupation of a pitman.
- The Firestone pitman eyed Al's scarlet Nomex jumpsuit and raven hair with amusement.
- His curiosity satisfied, the pitman turned back to his stack of tires, and Al returned to his engine.
- They were joined soon by Andy Miller, once a service-station man in an Alabama town, but now a pitman in the steel mill.
- Perth; according to his account, the Duke of Perth on reaching Biddick, took up his abode with a man named John Armstrong, a collier or pitman.
- The consultation ended in the men returning to the windlass, and the pitman going down again, carrying the wine and some other small matters with him.
- The Old Hell Shaft, the pitman said, with a curse upon it, was worthy of its bad name to the last; for though Stephen could speak now, he believed it would soon be found to have mangled the life out of him.
- A pitman named Gregory Robbs or Bling Bling, for the gold he wears ran down the list of supplies that are typically used each Sunday morning: 2,200 eggs, 80 pounds of bacon, a few hundred pounds of pancake mix.
- A disk crank is used with suitable counterbalance, expressly adapted to the weight and speed of sash; a hammered steel wrist pin five inches in diameter, and a forged pitman of the most approved pattern, with best composition boxes.
- As these were made, they were hung upon an arm of the pitman who had last come up, with instructions how to use them: and as he stood, shown by the light he carried, leaning his powerful loose hand upon one of the poles, and sometimes glancing down the pit, and sometimes glancing round upon the people, he was not the least conspicuous figure in the scene.
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