Definitions for coal-pit

coal-pit coal pit

Coal-Pit is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in coal-pit (-acilopt).

Definitions for coal-pit

noun

  1. a pit where coal is dug.
  2. a place where charcoal is made.

Origin of coal-pit

before 1050; Middle English colpytte, Old English collpytt

Examples for coal-pit

A ravine tributary to the latter, near its mouth, has worked back until it has captured the flow of coal pit.

The Irishman who was hoisted down the coal pit, did not observe this rule.

They furnish the bearing for the rope that hauls the car up the incline out of the coal pit.

At our word, every coal pit in England would cease work, every furnace fire would go out, every factory would stand empty.

Near it was the circular place on which the coal pit had burned.

Parallel with it, a short distance to the southward, is a ravine several miles in length, known as coal pit Hollow.

He had an idea, however, that it connected with some coal pit or quarry in the neighborhood of Preston.

You will doubtless remember Brother Street of Treorky, who was so badly crushed in the coal pit.

His house was burned, and his body found concealed in a coal pit.

In Belgium in the year 1683, four colliers were confined in a coal pit for twenty-four days without anything to eat.

Word Value for coal-pit
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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