pithead

(ˈpɪtˌhɛd)

(Mining & Quarrying) the top of a mine shaft and the buildings, hoisting gear, etc, situated around it

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Noun

pithead - the entrance to a coal mine

entrance, entranceway, entryway, entree, entry - something that provides access (to get in or get out); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral"

Translations

ingresso di miniera

pithead

[ˈpɪthed] N → bocamina f

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pithead

[ˈpɪthɛd] n (British) → carreau m de minepith helmet n → casque m colonial

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pithead

n → Übertageanlagen pl; at the pithead → über Tage; pithead ballot → Abstimmung f → der Bergarbeiter

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pithead

[ˈpɪtˌhɛd] n → imbocco della miniera

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Wee Jim McLean and Snow White joined rescuers at the pithead as they listened for any sound from the dark deep below.

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"It's very hot down there even though there's no fire," rescue worker Mr Nikolai Indyk, aged 47, said at the pithead, his face blackened and streaked with sweat.

63 coal miners die as gas blast rips Ukraine pit apart

I still remember it clearly, sharing the experience with neighbours who had been invited to join us, and then the older boys ran the length of the street in turn to tell the surface workers at the Maindy colliery pithead of Tommy's progress after each round, and they in turn would send the message down the shaft telephone so that someone at the bottom could deliver the news to the miners at the coal face.

Fond memories of boxer Tommy Farr; Views of Wales

"Anyway, when it appeared in the Sunday People a local came up to me in the pub and said how lucky I was to have been driving past the pithead as Adrian and his dad were standing there.

Classic pic straddles two worlds

The pithead vigil for those trapped underground lasted three days, and it took two weeks to retrieve all the bodies of the dead.

Pit disaster widow celebrates centenary

Living history sessions are also being held from Monday to Friday with characters such as Peggy Thorpe, a wartime miner's wife, or Fred Glover, a 1930s Pithead Baths attendant, telling their lively tales.

Summer fun at museum

Food and drinks are now reaching them, together with the good wishes of every Chilean from the president downwards, and relatives have set up Camp Hope at the pithead to await their rescue.

BRAVERY IN THE DEPTHS

The Big Pit museum stands on the edge of Blaenafon, and visitors can tour both the Pithead facilities and the underground mines.

Letter: Visit Wales's pit museum

A modern colliery should look more like a trading estate, no pithead winding gear or spoil tip; in fact nobody below ground at all.

We dig robotic miners

Passing through an iron door we entered a spacious, well-lit space where tubs were received from the workings and shot up the shaft to the pithead.

Keresley - an old king of coal; OLD COVENTRY VIII