Someone who works in a coal mine.
1Here is a Lancashire lass, the daughter of a common pitman.
2It was a pitman's song, with a refrain something like this-
3The pitman stamped across the mash of scales and feather.
4With a yell, the pitman vaulted onto the fence and grabbed the center post.
5A Bland-Altman comparison was performed and homogeneity of variances was tested using the pitman test.
6This crank is connected up by a pitman rod, with the triangularly shaped treadle frame.
7The pitman, finding nothing, leaned against the pole again.
8The pitman stood on the railing above the crowd.
9The pitman usually also doubles as a grinder.
10But Mihailov and Anna Karenina-thatis, the painter and the painted-seemeddeeply struck by the pitman's information.
11Before the unlucky pitman could rise the whole mob had surged over him, amidst shrieks of laughter.
12The pitman shook the bell rope again.
13A Durham glossary of 1849 defines bait as "food taken by a pitman to his work".
14The pitman is reciprocated by a simple treadle motion, which will be readily understood by reference to Fig.
15Paintings of a colliery and of a miners' pub, by the pitman painter Norman Cornish, hang on the walls.
16He dressed at all times in the kind of suit which a Northumbrian pitman wears when not actually at work.