Definition of "pitman" []

• A worker employed inside a pit in various industrial operations, as in a coal mine. (noun)
• See connecting rod. (noun)

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• "A pitman named Gregory Robbs or Bling Bling, for the gold he wears ran down the list of supplies that are typically used each Sunday morning: 2,200 eggs, 80 pounds of bacon, a few hundred pounds of pancake mix."
• "The consultation ended in the men returning to the windlass, and the pitman going down again, carrying the wine and some other small matters with him."
• "As these were made, they were hung upon an arm of the pitman who had last come up, with instructions how to use them: and as he stood, shown by the light he carried, leaning his powerful loose hand upon one of the poles, and sometimes glancing down the pit, and sometimes glancing round upon the people, he was not the least conspicuous figure in the scene."