Crossword clues for coalpit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coalpit \Coal"pit`\, n.
A pit where coal is dug.
A place where charcoal is made. [U. S.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A pit where coal is dug. 2 (context US English) A place where charcoal is made.
WordNet
n. a mine where coal is dug from the ground [syn: coal mine]
Usage examples of "coalpit".
They crossed a ridge and dropped down the far side, A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM 7 back into Coalpit Glen.
The wind had shifted round to the north, the sun shone clear and cold, and the smoke-grimed hamlet, and the gaunt buildings clustered at the mouths of the coalpits round about, looked as bright as they could look at any time of the year.
Bitzer had come down by train, shrieking and rattling over the long line of arches that bestrode the wild country of past and present coalpits, with an express from Stone Lodge.
Gradgrind knocked, Louisa rumbled to Coketown, over the coalpits past and present, and was whirled into its smoky jaws.
The image associated with Morel is that of the coalpits, where he descends daily and from which he ascends at night blackened and tired.
True, the work in the coalpits reverses the natural use of the hours of light and dark and is an economic distortion.