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Meanings of pithead in English

The raised ground or platforms upon which the coal is sorted and screened at the surface.

Term of mine structure.

Usage of pithead in English
1
At the pithead, Yefromov was gloomy about the mine's prospects.
The Guardian
2
He supposed they marked pithead banks and coke-ovens; but pushed on steadily towards the west.
Carmen's Messenger
3
George Stephenson worked his way from the pithead to the highest position as an engineer.
Thrift
4
He paused for a moment, set the machinery working again, and delivered five more at the pithead.
The Clicking of Cuthbert
5
It looked like the elevator equipment that would be found at the pithead of an ancient coal mine.
Zero Point
6
It was heard at the pithead, and the people crowded there ran hither and thither in dismay, thinking it was another explosion.
Sir George Tressady — Volume II
7
To the east rose pitheads, chimneys, and kilns, tier above tier, dim in their own mists.
Clayhanger
8
There was another minerad in 1999, this time in defence of miners' jobs, as the pitheads began to close.
The Guardian
9
Back above ground, the Pithead Baths building houses exhibitions such as the story of children in mining, and pit-town home life.
The Guardian
Frequent collocations
Pithead through the time