pitmann.¹

Brit.

/ˈpɪtmən/, U.S.

/ˈpɪtm(ə)n/

Inflections: Plural: pitmen, (in sense 2b) pitmans.

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

Etymology: < pit n.¹ + man n.¹In sense 4, referring to Ainu koropok-guru people who live in pits in winter.

†1. A gravedigger. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > grave-digging > grave-digger

pit-maker1567

gravedigger1594

burier1598

pitman1609

grave-master1622

grave-man1821

fossor1833

1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth 237 The ceremonie at their Burialls Is Ashes but to Ashes, Dust, to Dust; Nay not so much; for, strait the Pit-man falles (If he can stand) to hide them as he must.

a. The man who works the lower end of the saw in a saw pit.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > sawyer > types of

pitman1678

topman1678

top-sawyer1823

whip-sawyer1881

cross-cutter1902

tailer-out1907

band-sawyer1909

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 98 With the Pit-Saw they enter the one end of the Stuff, the Top man at the Top, and the Pit-man under him.

1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 15 Oct. The light thin saw of the pitman.

1907 Woodworkers Rev. 5 99/2 The man in the pit, or ‘pitman’ as he was called, merely furnished the power..to pull down the saw.

1964 W. L. Goodman Hist. Woodworking Tools 119 The ‘top sawyer’ standing at the foot of the sloping plank, with the ‘pitman’ on the ground.

b. Chiefly U.S. figurative. In machinery (originally that of a sawmill): the rod connecting a drive wheel or similar to the part being driven; a connecting rod.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > parts which provide power > [noun] > transmitters

carrier1733

pitman1813

driver1819

friction-cone1842

universal joint1856

cardan joint1868

reach rodc1871

Hooke coupling1883

friction-disc1888

impeller1890

transmission-gear1894

transmission1906

fluid flywheel1930

Hooke's joint1930

torque converter1934

fluid coupling1940

UJ1970

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > rod

rod1494

stay-bar1503–4

pitman1813

connecting rod1839

stay-rod1844

pushrod1908

1813 Weekly Reg. (Baltimore) 17 Apr. 111/2 I apply the power by means of a connecting rod or rods (or pitman as it is called when applied in saw mills).

1860 Sci. Amer. Aug. 96/1 [The] pistons are connected by piston rods d with pitmans e with the cranks f,f.

1898 Monthly S. Dakotan 1 87 Lamoure..was down on his knees tinkering at the pitman of the mower.

1952 R. P. Bissel Monongahela 213 Them pitmans as big as a pine tree.

1986 C. Culpin Farm Machinery (ed. 11) xi. 181/2 Carrying at its end a heavy flywheel and a crank-pin to which the ‘pitman’ or connecting rod is attached.

3. A man who works in a pit or mine, esp. a coal mine; a collier. Also: spec. a man who operates the pumping machinery in a pit or shaft.

ΘΚΠ

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

minerc1390

digger1531

pioneer1552

mineman1579

groover1610

berman1677

Vulcana1680

pitman1709

pikeman1744

Geordie1861

1709 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 216 Stith, as vulgarly so called by the Pitmen..is a want of Air.

1761 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 82/2 A large body of pitmen came into the town.

1814 J. Taylor in Trans. Geol. Soc. 2 315 A pitman..looks after the pumpwork in the shafts.

1869 N.Y. Herald 15 Sept. 10 The debris or impact reached to about thirty yards above the middle seam, and had to be removed before the imprisoned pitmen could be reached.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 163 Pitman [in Cornwall], a man employed to examine the lifts of pumps and the drainage.

1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Pit-man, a collier as distinguished from a miner... This distinction..has not of late years been closely preserved. The term pitman was formerly applied to every worker in a colliery, from the ‘trapper’ to the ‘hewer’.

1931 Nevada State Jrnl. 11 May 3 The heaviest buyers were contractors, pitmen and those having excavation work.

1934 J. B. Priestley Eng. Journey x. 334 I ought to explain here that in Durham collieries are always ‘pits’ and miners ‘pitmen’.

1978 ‘R. Lewis’ Uncertain Sound iii. 76 My father had been a simple pitman.

2004 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 23 Feb. 7 Every single pitman at Ellington is in fear of losing his livelihood.

†4. A member of a people who dwell in pits; a troglodyte. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > pit-dweller

pit-dweller1863

pitman1894

1894 Westm. Gaz. 30 Jan. 3/3 The little pit-men who seem to have been the real aborigines of Yezo, conquered by the Ainu.

5. A mechanic working in a motor-racing pit.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > mechanic

pitman1911

1911 Indianapolis Star 20 May 11/5 Al Poole, who..set a new record, was shaking hands with the drivers and the pitmen.

1913 Techn. World Mag. 19 495/2 A pitman has noticed that the tire is flat.

1996 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 31 July c7/6 He visited his..neighbor, veteran pitman Dick Slinden, who was working on an old racer in his garage.

6. U.S. colloquial. A musician in an orchestra pit.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > [noun] > member(s) of orchestra or band > orchestral player

symphonist1767

pitman1951

1951 A. Green & J. Laurie Show Biz 570/2 Pitmen, musicians in the orchestra pit.

1961 A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business Jargon 69 Pitmen,..musicians playing in the orchestra pit.

1993 R. Kimball in I. Gershwin Compl. Lyrics 168 I have been able to obtain the names of some of the Girl Crazy pitmen from the film producer Roger Edens.

Compounds

C1. General attributive in sense 2b, as pitman-box, pitman-head, pitman-press, pitman-strap, etc.

ΚΠ

1856 N.-Y. Daily Times 29 Mar. 8/3 About 6 o'clock last evening, the mangled remains of a man named Joseph Ratt were found wedged in the ‘Pitman box’ of a powerful steam engine.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Pitman-box, the stirrup and brasses which embrace the wrist of the driving-wheel... Pitman-coupling, a means of connecting a pitman to the object which it drives... Pitman-head, the block or enlargement at the end of a pitman, at which point its connection is made to the object by which it is driven or which it drives.

1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 13 Aug. 8 The Lee Mill..came to a stop..by the breaking of the lower pitman strap and trunk to the gang.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 686/2 Pitman Press, one working by pitman connection with a shaft, instead of eccentric or other equivalent.

1912 Coshocton Tribune 30 June 1/6 (advt.) We are headquarters for repairs for all makes of machines, guards, sections, knife-heads and pitman straps.

1948 A. W. Turner & E. J. Johnson Machines for Farm, Ranch, & Plantation xi. 410 Oil the pitman box and the lower end of the pitman rod frequently.

1958 Zanesville 5 Mar. 10/1 The invention is an improvement in pitman heads for mowing machines.

C2.

† pitman candle n. Obsolete rare a miner's lamp.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > lamp

pitman candle1658

fire lamp1769

steel mill1772

safe lamp1815

safe lantern1815

safety lamp1815

safety lantern1815

safe light1816

Davy1817

lamp1839

Geordie1844

pit lamp1860

flame-lamp1888

1658 H. Moseley Healing Leaf 30 Set not up a pit-man Candle in a stately room.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Pitmann.²

Brit.

/ˈpɪtmən/, U.S.

/ˈpɪtm(ə)n/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pitman.

Etymology: < the name of Sir Isaac Pitman (1813–97), English inventor of a shorthand system, published as Stenographic Sound-hand (1837).

I. Compounds.

1. attributive and in the genitive. Relating to or designating a phonetic system of shorthand notation, originally devised by Pitman.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > system of writing > shorthand > [noun] > systems of

radiography?1616

polygraphy1747

Tironian notes1828

sound-hand1837

phonography1840

phraseography1845

idiography1847

Pitman1869

Pitman1916

Speedwriting1925

snelskrif1949

society > communication > writing > system of writing > shorthand > [adjective] > systems of

phonographic1840

Pitman1869

phraseographic1881

script1882

Pitmanic1883

1862 M. Levy Hist. Short-hand xvii. 167 Compare their rules with those of Pitman, in which he explains how to write the Scotch guttural.]

1869 Times 18 Feb. 3/4 Wanted, in an office in Lincoln's-inn, a young man, having a good knowledge of Pitman's shorthand and the general duties of a solicitor's office.

1885 Revol. in Shorthand 7 I studied Pitman's system..for three or four months, but became a ‘stuck’ student.

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 74/1 The Reporter's Style of the Pitman System, by which fluent speakers can be reported verbatim.

1922 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 5 Aug. 13/1 (advt.) Books for the commercial student... Pitman's shorthand primer.

1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 145 It offered typing, stenography in both Gregg and Pitman systems of shorthand..and a number of accounting courses.

II. Simple uses.

2. Also in form Pitman's. Pitman's shorthand; (also occasionally) shorthand writing.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > system of writing > shorthand > [noun] > systems of

radiography?1616

polygraphy1747

Tironian notes1828

sound-hand1837

phonography1840

phraseography1845

idiography1847

Pitman1869

Pitman1916

Speedwriting1925

snelskrif1949

1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion Pref. 101 There was a weekly paper to persuade you to learn Pitman... I actually learned the [sc. Sweet's] system..and yet the shorthand in which I am writing these lines is Pitman's.

1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vi. 171 What's Ogam?.. A sort of prehistoric Pitman's?

1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 8 Oct. 24/1 (advt.) Applicants should possess WASC preferably with credit in English Language or equivalent and RSA or Pitmans or Government Certificate or their equivalent for 100/50 w.p.m. in shorthand and typewriting.

2004 Times (Nexis) 28 Jan. 4 It may not be necessary to offer the classic Pitman. Speedwriting and Teeline, which use the letters of the alphabet, are now commonly requested by clients as an alternative.

Derivatives

Pitˈmanic adj. resembling or suggestive of Pitman shorthand.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > system of writing > shorthand > [adjective] > systems of

phonographic1840

Pitman1869

phraseographic1881

script1882

Pitmanic1883

1883 Overland Monthly July 41/2 His [sc. John Willis] alphabet was very imperfect, but it was the pioneer of the vast strides of improvement which have in our time culminated in Pitmanic Phonography.

1925 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 264/1 I saw..a sheet of notepaper scribbled with Pitmanic symbols.

1960 Times 28 Sept. 13/4 What odds if the Pitmanic ‘X’ full stops were sometimes deliberately exaggerated!

2002 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 31 July 5/2 (advt.) I successfully transcribed Pitmanic notes in the case of a man convicted of murder in Florida.

ˈPitmanite n. a student or exponent of the Pitman system.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writer > writer according to system > [noun] > one who uses written symbols > writer in shorthand > types of

Pitmanite1908

speedwriter1955

Palantypist1958

1908 G. B. Shaw Let. 29 June (1972) II. 793 The other day I was confronted with an old copy of the Academy, dated 1898, with some shorthand notes on the margin... You can imagine how the honest Pitmanite who was asked to decipher it..believed that he had saved me from a fearful scandal.

1939 Times 7 Dec. 9/5 I am a short-handist (Pitmanite).

2001 Investor's Business Daily (Nexis) 9 Aug. a4 The Pitmanites were on the defensive. They published a pamphlet attacking Gregg's system.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pitman
释义	pitmann.¹ Brit. /ˈpɪtmən/, U.S. /ˈpɪtm(ə)n/ Inflections: Plural: pitmen, (in sense 2b) pitmans. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pit n.¹, man n.¹ Etymology: < pit n.¹ + man n.¹In sense 4, referring to Ainu koropok-guru people who live in pits in winter. †1. A gravedigger. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > grave-digging > grave-digger pit-maker1567 gravedigger1594 burier1598 pitman1609 grave-master1622 grave-man1821 fossor1833 1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth 237 The ceremonie at their Burialls Is Ashes but to Ashes, Dust, to Dust; Nay not so much; for, strait the Pit-man falles (If he can stand) to hide them as he must. 2. a. The man who works the lower end of the saw in a saw pit. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > sawyer > types of pitman1678 topman1678 top-sawyer1823 whip-sawyer1881 cross-cutter1902 tailer-out1907 band-sawyer1909 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 98 With the Pit-Saw they enter the one end of the Stuff, the Top man at the Top, and the Pit-man under him. 1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 15 Oct. The light thin saw of the pitman. 1907 Woodworkers Rev. 5 99/2 The man in the pit, or ‘pitman’ as he was called, merely furnished the power..to pull down the saw. 1964 W. L. Goodman Hist. Woodworking Tools 119 The ‘top sawyer’ standing at the foot of the sloping plank, with the ‘pitman’ on the ground. b. Chiefly U.S. figurative. In machinery (originally that of a sawmill): the rod connecting a drive wheel or similar to the part being driven; a connecting rod. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > parts which provide power > [noun] > transmitters carrier1733 pitman1813 driver1819 friction-cone1842 universal joint1856 cardan joint1868 reach rodc1871 Hooke coupling1883 friction-disc1888 impeller1890 transmission-gear1894 transmission1906 fluid flywheel1930 Hooke's joint1930 torque converter1934 fluid coupling1940 UJ1970 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > rod rod1494 stay-bar1503–4 pitman1813 connecting rod1839 stay-rod1844 pushrod1908 1813 Weekly Reg. (Baltimore) 17 Apr. 111/2 I apply the power by means of a connecting rod or rods (or pitman as it is called when applied in saw mills). 1860 Sci. Amer. Aug. 96/1 [The] pistons are connected by piston rods d with pitmans e with the cranks f,f. 1898 Monthly S. Dakotan 1 87 Lamoure..was down on his knees tinkering at the pitman of the mower. 1952 R. P. Bissel Monongahela 213 Them pitmans as big as a pine tree. 1986 C. Culpin Farm Machinery (ed. 11) xi. 181/2 Carrying at its end a heavy flywheel and a crank-pin to which the ‘pitman’ or connecting rod is attached. 3. A man who works in a pit or mine, esp. a coal mine; a collier. Also: spec. a man who operates the pumping machinery in a pit or shaft. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] minerc1390 digger1531 pioneer1552 mineman1579 groover1610 berman1677 Vulcana1680 pitman1709 pikeman1744 Geordie1861 1709 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 216 Stith, as vulgarly so called by the Pitmen..is a want of Air. 1761 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 82/2 A large body of pitmen came into the town. 1814 J. Taylor in Trans. Geol. Soc. 2 315 A pitman..looks after the pumpwork in the shafts. 1869 N.Y. Herald 15 Sept. 10 The debris or impact reached to about thirty yards above the middle seam, and had to be removed before the imprisoned pitmen could be reached. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 163 Pitman [in Cornwall], a man employed to examine the lifts of pumps and the drainage. 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Pit-man, a collier as distinguished from a miner... This distinction..has not of late years been closely preserved. The term pitman was formerly applied to every worker in a colliery, from the ‘trapper’ to the ‘hewer’. 1931 Nevada State Jrnl. 11 May 3 The heaviest buyers were contractors, pitmen and those having excavation work. 1934 J. B. Priestley Eng. Journey x. 334 I ought to explain here that in Durham collieries are always ‘pits’ and miners ‘pitmen’. 1978 ‘R. Lewis’ Uncertain Sound iii. 76 My father had been a simple pitman. 2004 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 23 Feb. 7 Every single pitman at Ellington is in fear of losing his livelihood. †4. A member of a people who dwell in pits; a troglodyte. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > pit-dweller pit-dweller1863 pitman1894 1894 Westm. Gaz. 30 Jan. 3/3 The little pit-men who seem to have been the real aborigines of Yezo, conquered by the Ainu. 5. A mechanic working in a motor-racing pit. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > mechanic pitman1911 1911 Indianapolis Star 20 May 11/5 Al Poole, who..set a new record, was shaking hands with the drivers and the pitmen. 1913 Techn. World Mag. 19 495/2 A pitman has noticed that the tire is flat. 1996 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 31 July c7/6 He visited his..neighbor, veteran pitman Dick Slinden, who was working on an old racer in his garage. 6. U.S. colloquial. A musician in an orchestra pit. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > [noun] > member(s) of orchestra or band > orchestral player symphonist1767 pitman1951 1951 A. Green & J. Laurie Show Biz 570/2 Pitmen, musicians in the orchestra pit. 1961 A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business Jargon 69 Pitmen,..musicians playing in the orchestra pit. 1993 R. Kimball in I. Gershwin Compl. Lyrics 168 I have been able to obtain the names of some of the Girl Crazy pitmen from the film producer Roger Edens. Compounds C1. General attributive in sense 2b, as pitman-box, pitman-head, pitman-press, pitman-strap, etc. ΚΠ 1856 N.-Y. Daily Times 29 Mar. 8/3 About 6 o'clock last evening, the mangled remains of a man named Joseph Ratt were found wedged in the ‘Pitman box’ of a powerful steam engine. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Pitman-box, the stirrup and brasses which embrace the wrist of the driving-wheel... Pitman-coupling, a means of connecting a pitman to the object which it drives... Pitman-head, the block or enlargement at the end of a pitman, at which point its connection is made to the object by which it is driven or which it drives. 1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 13 Aug. 8 The Lee Mill..came to a stop..by the breaking of the lower pitman strap and trunk to the gang. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 686/2 Pitman Press, one working by pitman connection with a shaft, instead of eccentric or other equivalent. 1912 Coshocton Tribune 30 June 1/6 (advt.) We are headquarters for repairs for all makes of machines, guards, sections, knife-heads and pitman straps. 1948 A. W. Turner & E. J. Johnson Machines for Farm, Ranch, & Plantation xi. 410 Oil the pitman box and the lower end of the pitman rod frequently. 1958 Zanesville 5 Mar. 10/1 The invention is an improvement in pitman heads for mowing machines. C2. † pitman candle n. Obsolete rare a miner's lamp. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > lamp pitman candle1658 fire lamp1769 steel mill1772 safe lamp1815 safe lantern1815 safety lamp1815 safety lantern1815 safe light1816 Davy1817 lamp1839 Geordie1844 pit lamp1860 flame-lamp1888 1658 H. Moseley Healing Leaf 30 Set not up a pit-man Candle in a stately room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Pitmann.² Brit. /ˈpɪtmən/, U.S. /ˈpɪtm(ə)n/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pitman. Etymology: < the name of Sir Isaac Pitman (1813–97), English inventor of a shorthand system, published as Stenographic Sound-hand (1837). I. Compounds. 1. attributive and in the genitive. Relating to or designating a phonetic system of shorthand notation, originally devised by Pitman. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > shorthand > [noun] > systems of radiography?1616 polygraphy1747 Tironian notes1828 sound-hand1837 phonography1840 phraseography1845 idiography1847 Pitman1869 Pitman1916 Speedwriting1925 snelskrif1949 society > communication > writing > system of writing > shorthand > [adjective] > systems of phonographic1840 Pitman1869 phraseographic1881 script1882 Pitmanic1883 1862 M. Levy Hist. Short-hand xvii. 167 Compare their rules with those of Pitman, in which he explains how to write the Scotch guttural.] 1869 Times 18 Feb. 3/4 Wanted, in an office in Lincoln's-inn, a young man, having a good knowledge of Pitman's shorthand and the general duties of a solicitor's office. 1885 Revol. in Shorthand 7 I studied Pitman's system..for three or four months, but became a ‘stuck’ student. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 74/1 The Reporter's Style of the Pitman System, by which fluent speakers can be reported verbatim. 1922 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 5 Aug. 13/1 (advt.) Books for the commercial student... Pitman's shorthand primer. 1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 145 It offered typing, stenography in both Gregg and Pitman systems of shorthand..and a number of accounting courses. II. Simple uses. 2. Also in form Pitman's. Pitman's shorthand; (also occasionally) shorthand writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > shorthand > [noun] > systems of radiography?1616 polygraphy1747 Tironian notes1828 sound-hand1837 phonography1840 phraseography1845 idiography1847 Pitman1869 Pitman1916 Speedwriting1925 snelskrif1949 1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion Pref. 101 There was a weekly paper to persuade you to learn Pitman... I actually learned the [sc. Sweet's] system..and yet the shorthand in which I am writing these lines is Pitman's. 1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vi. 171 What's Ogam?.. A sort of prehistoric Pitman's? 1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 8 Oct. 24/1 (advt.) Applicants should possess WASC preferably with credit in English Language or equivalent and RSA or Pitmans or Government Certificate or their equivalent for 100/50 w.p.m. in shorthand and typewriting. 2004 Times (Nexis) 28 Jan. 4 It may not be necessary to offer the classic Pitman. Speedwriting and Teeline, which use the letters of the alphabet, are now commonly requested by clients as an alternative. Derivatives Pitˈmanic adj. resembling or suggestive of Pitman shorthand. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > shorthand > [adjective] > systems of phonographic1840 Pitman1869 phraseographic1881 script1882 Pitmanic1883 1883 Overland Monthly July 41/2 His [sc. John Willis] alphabet was very imperfect, but it was the pioneer of the vast strides of improvement which have in our time culminated in Pitmanic Phonography. 1925 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 264/1 I saw..a sheet of notepaper scribbled with Pitmanic symbols. 1960 Times 28 Sept. 13/4 What odds if the Pitmanic ‘X’ full stops were sometimes deliberately exaggerated! 2002 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 31 July 5/2 (advt.) I successfully transcribed Pitmanic notes in the case of a man convicted of murder in Florida. ˈPitmanite n. a student or exponent of the Pitman system. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writer > writer according to system > [noun] > one who uses written symbols > writer in shorthand > types of Pitmanite1908 speedwriter1955 Palantypist1958 1908 G. B. Shaw Let. 29 June (1972) II. 793 The other day I was confronted with an old copy of the Academy, dated 1898, with some shorthand notes on the margin... You can imagine how the honest Pitmanite who was asked to decipher it..believed that he had saved me from a fearful scandal. 1939 Times 7 Dec. 9/5 I am a short-handist (Pitmanite). 2001 Investor's Business Daily (Nexis) 9 Aug. a4 The Pitmanites were on the defensive. They published a pamphlet attacking Gregg's system. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1609n.²1869
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