Definitions for pitmans

pitmans pit·man

Spelling: [pit-muh n]
IPA: /ˈpɪt mən/

Pitmans is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 274 anagrams from letters in pitmans (aimnpst).

Definitions for pitmans

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 pitmans

First recorded in 1600-10; pit1 + -man

Examples for pitmans

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

But I permitted Mr. pitman to continue without interruption.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for pitmans
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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