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The entrance to a coal mine
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pithead
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The area around the top of the mineshaft of a coal mine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her home overlooks the pithead and the haunting winding gear of a colliery where an explosion once killed over thirty miners. ▪ Only a third of collieries had pithead baths before nationalisation. ▪ The original colliery buildings, ...
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n. the entrance to a coal mine
Usage examples of pithead.
UNSA personnel had congregated in the messroom at Pithead to watch the takeoff, the view of which was being relayed from Main Base and shown on the wall screen.
Here in Wenshar, the southernmost of the Middle Kingdoms on the borders of the desert, even the few hardy herds of cattle grazing the patches of scrub that passed for oases were chivvied in to closer pastures near the foothill towns, and the silver miners strung lines of rope from their dwellings to the pitheads, lest the burning sand-winds rise while they were between one point and another, and the darkness come on so swiftly that they would be lost.