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pitman

[ UK /pˈɪtmən/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪtmən/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who works in a coal mine

How To Use pitman In A Sentence

  • Dr Pitman and his colleague Dr John Durban helped a BBC film crew capture their behaviour for the TV documentary series Frozen Planet, to be shown later this month.
  • Install pitman shaft and side cover in the housing.
  • But the Wistow pitman says no amount of money can compensate for a crippling hand condition that could leave him on the unemployment scrap heap.
  • Houghton-le-Spring, in the occupation of a pitman. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
  • This agreement will prove beneficial for Pitman, for EFI and for the label printing and packaging industry as a whole," said EFI president, Fred Rosenzweig. Packaging and Converting Essentials
  • 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. Hard Times
  • Mark Pitman's gelding has shown decent form in bumpers and also over hurdles, and has finished runner-up in both his races over the minor obstacles this term.
  • They were joined soon by Andy Miller, once a service-station man in an Alabama town, but now a pitman in the steel mill. The Dollmaker
  • 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. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
  • Recently an auction of items belonging to Isaac Pitman, inventor of the Pitman shorthand system of writing, went up for sale.
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