Crossword clues for pithead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pithead
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, including the winding engine-house, the blacksmiths' shop and pithead baths.
▪ The story of the pithead baths bears him out.
▪ Under the 1911 Coal Mines Act, pithead baths had to be provided if two-thirds of the miners voted for them.
▪ Whilst cleaning the pithead baths at the Stillingfleet Colliery Tony was asked to wash the back of a bathing miner.
Wiktionary
pithead
n. The area around the top of the mineshaft of a coal mine
WordNet
pithead
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.