coal pitn.

Brit.

/ˈkəʊl ˌpɪt/, U.S.

/ˈkoʊl ˌpɪt/

Forms: see coal n. and pit n.¹; also Middle English colpeyt (east midlands).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: coal n., pit n.¹

Etymology: < coal n. + pit n.¹Earliest in boundary markers in Anglo-Saxon charters (compare quot. OE at sense 1) where the reference is clearly to pits for making charcoal. In early place names it is difficult to distinguish sense 1 from sense 2, even in known coal-mining areas (e.g. Coleputtes, South Elmsall, West Riding, Yorkshire (late 12th cent.; now Coal Pit Field), Colpittes, Slaley, Northumberland (1255; now Colpitts)). Compare also the following, which perhaps refers to an area where a stream or burn has cut through a coal seam:1241 in J. T. Fowler Chartularium Abbathiæ de Novo Monasterio (1878) 202 Sicut fossatum descendit in Colepeteburn.

1. A pit or place in which wood or other organic matter is made into charcoal by heating or burning. Cf. coal n. 2a. Now chiefly U.S. and Caribbean.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > others

coal pitOE

wireworks1598

alum works1617

copperas-worka1661

saltpetre house1683

nailery1802

railworks1863

lockworks1864

sulphur-work1870

tack-mill1884

pitch-boilery1885

rubber plant1886

soot house1957

OE Bounds (Sawyer 772) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 517 Of þære dic on þone ealdan collpytt þær þa þreo gemæru togædere gaþ.

lOE Bounds (Sawyer 960) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1846) IV. 27 Forð bæ hæselholtæ on collpytt, of collpyttæ on swealewan hlypan.

1323–4 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 42 (MED) Item in pari flabellarum pro le Colpeyt empt. 6 d.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 53 (MED) Þe erl, wyth þe colyere, wokyn þat cole-pytt.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. vi. sig. Hhh.v^v/1 Nestorius willing to auoyd a colepitt, fell into a lime kill.

c1612 W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) i. x. 122 They..Cover all with earth or sand in the manner of a Coale-pitt.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Coalpit..in America, a place where charcoal is made.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 14/3 Heat potatoes, turnips, corn, wheat,..or any other food, just as you heat wood in the coal pit, and you get in every case a mass of charcoal.

1956 W. R. Bird Off-trail in Nova Scotia x. 291 In those days the Iron Mines wanted charcoal and every farm had its coal-pit.

1982 E. Lovelace Shoemaker Arnold in Best W. Indian Stories 27 Maybe he going to attend his coal pit, to watch it that the coals don't burn up and turn powder.

2. A pit or mine where coal is excavated; a coal mine. Cf. pit n.¹ 3b.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > excavated area > of coal-mine

coal pit1323

pit1447

coal-pot1512

heugh1786

1323 in J. W. Walker Court Rolls Wakefield (1945) V. 13 [Richard Bullock and John his brother, stole cattle, and slaughtered them in] le Colepittes.

1357 in D. H. Holmes Mining & Quarrying Industries Huddersfield District (1967) ii. 22 Colpyte.

1447 in J. Raine Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (1839) p. cccxiii The colepite in Trillesden, and alsa the colepite in Spennyngmore.

1575 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 112 Whereas I have a lease..of too cole pittes.

1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 26 Those who have been conversant in Colepits & Mines.

1683 Mem. Sir J. Melvil 9 Like an old Coal-pit which had taken fire.

1776 T. Percy Let. 29 Feb. in Percy Lett. (1954) IV. 136 The ground..hath under-gone such changes, principally by sinking Coalpits near the Cross.

1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. in Mag. Hist. (1911) 18 ix. 330 Dartmoor..a place doleful as a coal-pit.

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 9 The upper-ground workmen employed at the coal-pits.

1925 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Nov. 867/1 No man would entrust his life in going down a coal-pit to a winder who had not obtained the recognized skill for his work.

1940 E. Muir Story & Fable iii. 108 All that could be seen were blackened fields, smokestacks, and the sooty ramparts of coal-pits.

2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 202 Trips were made..to the coal pits in Arigna for trailerloads of low-grade, inexpensive coal.

Compounds

General attributive (chiefly in sense 2).

ΚΠ

1548 in Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers (1924) 67 227 The Colpitt booke from the Natyvytie of our Lorde in anno regni regis E. vj^ti ij^do.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 106 The Colepit waters, especially those they call Canker'd waters, that kill all the fish wherever they fall into the Rivers.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 762 On coalpit banks near Stourbridge.

1859 Edinb. Rev. 109 303 The dismal chapter of coal-pit life.

1922 Forging & Heat Treating 8 263/2 The pounds of coal used per pound of brass melted is known from operations in a coal pit furnace of similar construction.

2003 V. Smil China's Past, China's Future ii. 12 Small coal pit extraction is not, even when approached in a planned and sensible manner, without many difficulties.

Derivatives

ˈcoal-pitter n. now rare a coal miner.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner

coalman1582

collier1594

coal miner?1609

coal-worker1638

coal-pitter1720

1720 London Gaz. No. 5818/4 John Proud, of Sunderland..Coal-Pitter.

1843 Bristol Mercury 22 Apr. Lord Eldon was the son of a coal-pitter, at Newcastle.

1947 R. E. Day Beacon Lights of Grace iii. 43 One was a coal-pitter; another a dogfighter.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	coal pit
释义	coal pitn. Brit. /ˈkəʊl ˌpɪt/, U.S. /ˈkoʊl ˌpɪt/ Forms: see coal n. and pit n.¹; also Middle English colpeyt (east midlands). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: coal n., pit n.¹ Etymology: < coal n. + pit n.¹Earliest in boundary markers in Anglo-Saxon charters (compare quot. OE at sense 1) where the reference is clearly to pits for making charcoal. In early place names it is difficult to distinguish sense 1 from sense 2, even in known coal-mining areas (e.g. Coleputtes, South Elmsall, West Riding, Yorkshire (late 12th cent.; now Coal Pit Field), Colpittes, Slaley, Northumberland (1255; now Colpitts)). Compare also the following, which perhaps refers to an area where a stream or burn has cut through a coal seam:1241 in J. T. Fowler Chartularium Abbathiæ de Novo Monasterio (1878) 202 Sicut fossatum descendit in Colepeteburn. 1. A pit or place in which wood or other organic matter is made into charcoal by heating or burning. Cf. coal n. 2a. Now chiefly U.S. and Caribbean. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > others coal pitOE wireworks1598 alum works1617 copperas-worka1661 saltpetre house1683 nailery1802 railworks1863 lockworks1864 sulphur-work1870 tack-mill1884 pitch-boilery1885 rubber plant1886 soot house1957 OE Bounds (Sawyer 772) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 517 Of þære dic on þone ealdan collpytt þær þa þreo gemæru togædere gaþ. lOE Bounds (Sawyer 960) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1846) IV. 27 Forð bæ hæselholtæ on collpytt, of collpyttæ on swealewan hlypan. 1323–4 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 42 (MED) Item in pari flabellarum pro le Colpeyt empt. 6 d. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 53 (MED) Þe erl, wyth þe colyere, wokyn þat cole-pytt. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. vi. sig. Hhh.v^v/1 Nestorius willing to auoyd a colepitt, fell into a lime kill. c1612 W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) i. x. 122 They..Cover all with earth or sand in the manner of a Coale-pitt. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Coalpit..in America, a place where charcoal is made. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 14/3 Heat potatoes, turnips, corn, wheat,..or any other food, just as you heat wood in the coal pit, and you get in every case a mass of charcoal. 1956 W. R. Bird Off-trail in Nova Scotia x. 291 In those days the Iron Mines wanted charcoal and every farm had its coal-pit. 1982 E. Lovelace Shoemaker Arnold in Best W. Indian Stories 27 Maybe he going to attend his coal pit, to watch it that the coals don't burn up and turn powder. 2. A pit or mine where coal is excavated; a coal mine. Cf. pit n.¹ 3b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > excavated area > of coal-mine coal pit1323 pit1447 coal-pot1512 heugh1786 1323 in J. W. Walker Court Rolls Wakefield (1945) V. 13 [Richard Bullock and John his brother, stole cattle, and slaughtered them in] le Colepittes. 1357 in D. H. Holmes Mining & Quarrying Industries Huddersfield District (1967) ii. 22 Colpyte. 1447 in J. Raine Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (1839) p. cccxiii The colepite in Trillesden, and alsa the colepite in Spennyngmore. 1575 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 112 Whereas I have a lease..of too cole pittes. 1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 26 Those who have been conversant in Colepits & Mines. 1683 Mem. Sir J. Melvil 9 Like an old Coal-pit which had taken fire. 1776 T. Percy Let. 29 Feb. in Percy Lett. (1954) IV. 136 The ground..hath under-gone such changes, principally by sinking Coalpits near the Cross. 1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. in Mag. Hist. (1911) 18 ix. 330 Dartmoor..a place doleful as a coal-pit. 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 9 The upper-ground workmen employed at the coal-pits. 1925 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Nov. 867/1 No man would entrust his life in going down a coal-pit to a winder who had not obtained the recognized skill for his work. 1940 E. Muir Story & Fable iii. 108 All that could be seen were blackened fields, smokestacks, and the sooty ramparts of coal-pits. 2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 202 Trips were made..to the coal pits in Arigna for trailerloads of low-grade, inexpensive coal. Compounds General attributive (chiefly in sense 2). ΚΠ 1548 in Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers (1924) 67 227 The Colpitt booke from the Natyvytie of our Lorde in anno regni regis E. vj^ti ij^do. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 106 The Colepit waters, especially those they call Canker'd waters, that kill all the fish wherever they fall into the Rivers. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 762 On coalpit banks near Stourbridge. 1859 Edinb. Rev. 109 303 The dismal chapter of coal-pit life. 1922 Forging & Heat Treating 8 263/2 The pounds of coal used per pound of brass melted is known from operations in a coal pit furnace of similar construction. 2003 V. Smil China's Past, China's Future ii. 12 Small coal pit extraction is not, even when approached in a planned and sensible manner, without many difficulties. Derivatives ˈcoal-pitter n. now rare a coal miner. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner coalman1582 collier1594 coal miner?1609 coal-worker1638 coal-pitter1720 1720 London Gaz. No. 5818/4 John Proud, of Sunderland..Coal-Pitter. 1843 Bristol Mercury 22 Apr. Lord Eldon was the son of a coal-pitter, at Newcastle. 1947 R. E. Day Beacon Lights of Grace iii. 43 One was a coal-pitter; another a dogfighter. 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