pit head

A form of pithead — The area around the top of the mineshaft of a coal mine.

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Meanings

nounpit head (plural pit heads)

plural pit heads

  1. alternativeAlternative form of pithead (sense 1).

    The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.

    1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11
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pit head. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pit%20head

MLA

“pit head.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pit%20head. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pit head,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pit%20head.

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