Pitman

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A worker employed inside a pit in various industrial operations, as in a coal mine.
  • n. See connecting rod.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
  • n. A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
  • n. The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who works in a pit, as in coal-mining, in sawing timber, etc. Specifically
  • n. The man who looks after the pumping machinery within the shaft of a mine.
  • n. In machinery, the rod which connects a rotary with a reciprocating part, either for imparting motion to the latter or taking motion from it, as that which couples a crank with a saw-gate, or a steam-piston with its crank-shaft, etc. Also called connectingrod. See also cut under stone-breaker.
  • n. See the extract.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who works in a coal mine
  • n. English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    miner    mineworker    pedagog    pedagogue    educator   
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    Whitman    titman   
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