Definitions for pitmen

pitmen pit·man

Spelling: [pit-muh n]
IPA: /ˈpɪt mən/

Pitmen 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 101 anagrams from letters in pitmen (eimnpt).

Definitions for pitmen

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 pitmen

First recorded in 1600-10; pit1 + -man

Examples for pitmen

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

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

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

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

But I permitted Mr. pitman to continue without interruption.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for pitmen
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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