Sentence examples for pitman from inspiring English sources
noun
One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
Saws for this purpose were generally called pit saws because they were operated in the vertical plane by two men, one of whom, the pitman, sometimes stood in a pit below the timber or under a trestle supporting the timber being sawed.
His mate stood on the timber above, pulling the saw up; the pitman and gravity did the work of cutting on the downstroke, for which the teeth were raked.
"We have shown we can do it," said pitman Jim Turner.
When I doubled, if the pitman had moved on, I put down a chip for her.
He felt the mill through his feet before he saw it, the metal clank and rasp of the drive-shift gears and the pitman arm sending a mindless thumping rhythm into the ground.
Little blond lady dealer, a pitman just behind her.
Bournemouth won their third game in a row after Brett Pitman scored a brace in the 3-0 victoveroveReadingng following Callum Wilson's opener.
Brett Pitman could not take advantage after Teddy Bishop had inadvertently put the ball in his path and that was followed by two smart saves from Bartosz Bialkowski, firstly from Ryan Fraser and then swooping to his right to deny Ritchie's 30-yarder.
Eddie Howe hailed Brett Pitman after the striker's first-half hat-trick sent Blackpool to a fifth consecutive defeat.
The substitute, Brett Pitman, had even played against Grimsby in 2009 when Howe's side had retained their Football League status.
Smith 79), Daniels Arterr, Surman; Ritchie, Pitman (Kermorgant 65), Fraser (Jones 79); Wilson Subs not used: Camp, Gosling, Macdonald, Ward.
