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Definition of Pitheads
1. pithead [n] - See also: pithead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitheads
Literary usage of Pitheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"It was found, however, that the pits had suffered enormous damage, approaches to
pitheads having been rendered impassable by the creation of enormous ..."
2. Capital (1888)
"... an individual the soft coke purchased for domestic use costs three to four
times more than whal the private-sector traders pay for il at the pitheads. ..."
3. The Electrical Engineer (1891)
"At night time the two circuits are run for lighting the engine- rooms above ground
and pitheads as well as below. The installation, which has been carried ..."
4. Marshal Ferdinand Foch, His Life and His Theory of Modern War by Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1919)
"... the great colliery centre of northern France, with its pitheads, shale heaps,
and a network of railway lines. Outlying colliery centres are about Loos, ..."
5. The Campaign of 1914 in France and Belgium by George Herbert Perris (1915)
"The term referred mainly, but perhaps not wholly, to the nature of the country,
which is cut up in parts by pitheads and mining villages, and, further west, ..."
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