Definitions for Pitman

Pitman pit·man

Spelling: [pit-muh n]
IPA: /ˈpɪt mən/

Pitman is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in Pitman (aimnpt).

Definitions for Pitman

noun

  1. a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
  2. Machinery. any of certain types of connecting rods.
  3. Sir Isaac, 1813–97, English inventor of a system of shorthand.

Origin of Pitman

First recorded in 1600-10; pit1 + -man

Examples for Pitman

It was impossible to go back, for Miss pitman was standing on the stairs.

I went up to his rooms for a speed practice in pitman's Shorthand.

I mind fine his granddam—the merry-begot of a pitman's lass doon the water.'

The chair has no thoughts, Mrs. pitman, answered that body loftily.

Marrow, a mate, a fellow-workman, a pitman who works in a shift with another.

She was 92 reading "pitman's Phonetic Journal," and eating bread and treacle.

But I permitted Mr. pitman to continue without interruption.

Neither pitman nor Collier had their modern meaning of coal-miner.

"Miss pitman's crosser than usual," she said to Alison at eleven o'clock.

So Louie became a quite superior writer of pitman's shorthand.

Word Value for Pitman
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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