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Meanings of pithead in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bank"
Examples for "bank"
1
The report also made a case for bank consolidation, particularly in Europe.
2
The result: less competition, job cuts and higher costs for bank services.
3
U.S. bank bosses, however, are typically paid far more than in Europe.
4
The bank said in December this process had been completed for Europe.
5
Every year, the number of unclaimed bank and building society accounts grows.
1
We found it more comfortable here than on the windy pit bank, for there was an even and sleepy temperature.
1
The leader who had crawled upon the spoil bank fired again and missed.
2
Bare feet came drumming down the dirt of the spoil bank.
3
The gunman was running for dear life down the spoil bank.
4
Then two separate fights raged up and down the spoil bank.
5
Roger selected a high spoil bank near the center of the muck land as his post.
1
The tower has left visitors scratching their heads due to its slender shaft topped with a bulbous observation deck.
1
The earlier contest in the Windy City pits top-seeded Virginia against No.
2
Pit stop drama Hot tyres and hot brakes perhaps played a role in the three notable pit top issues seen in Mexico.
3
The Nedbank Cup pits top flight clubs against teams from the lower leagues and, every now and then, serves up a mismatch in the final.
1
We locked up our gold in the safe, and then started for Gravel Pit Hill.
2
Why, the miners are building fortifications on Gravel Pit Hill, and last night the sound of axes was heard from dark until light.
Usage of pithead in English
1
At the pithead, Yefromov was gloomy about the mine's prospects.
2
He supposed they marked pithead banks and coke-ovens; but pushed on steadily towards the west.
3
George Stephenson worked his way from the pithead to the highest position as an engineer.
4
He paused for a moment, set the machinery working again, and delivered five more at the pithead.
5
It looked like the elevator equipment that would be found at the pithead of an ancient coal mine.
6
It was heard at the pithead, and the people crowded there ran hither and thither in dismay, thinking it was another explosion.
7
To the east rose pitheads, chimneys, and kilns, tier above tier, dim in their own mists.
8
There was another minerad in 1999, this time in defence of miners' jobs, as the pitheads began to close.
9
Back above ground, the Pithead Baths building houses exhibitions such as the story of children in mining, and pit-town home life.