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coalpits
n. (plural of coalpit English)
Usage examples of "coalpits".
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.