Someone who works in a coal mine

Usage examples of pitman.

Its only door led into the kitchen, where Pitman sat with his cutlery and silver polish.

CHAPTER IX VICIOUS CIRCLE By the time Pitman had conducted Vallon to the foot of the staircase, The Shadow was no longer visible.

Nothing was clear except that Pitman had been attacked while the others were locked in their rooms.

Marcus explained about the visit of Cranston shortly before the strange attack on Pitman by a burglar.

Marcus Bellinger explained huskily about the attack on Pitman by an unknown sneak thief who apparently fled without stealing anything.

Afraid of leaving fingerprints on the candlestick with which he had struck down Pitman, the man had donned gloves.

Mike Vallon - and from Mike Vallon to a cunning super-criminal who had slugged Pitman so viciously.

Sam Pitman, and the little fellow has almost counted the hours since he heard you was coming.

Alfred, he started to run away one night awhile back, after Pitman had whipped him for planting the wrong seed-corn.

Henley approached the steps Pitman and his wife, hearing the click of the gate-latch, came out on the porch, which was shaded by overhanging vines, and stood staring blankly at him.

Henley led Pitman round the house to the little barn-yard in the rear.

The closing of a rear door and the resounding tread of a pair of hobnailed boots on the lower floor told him that Pitman had entered the house and was going to bed.

I paid Sam Pitman twenty-five dollars to get him to release all his claims without any rumpus.

He had such a hard time under Sam Pitman that, somehow, I want him to have a good, long vacation.

Nor did I believe what Don had accused Sam of, because it was the greatest crime a pitman could commit.