释义 |
pitheadpit‧head /ˈpɪt-hed/ noun [countable] British English  - Her home overlooks the pithead and the haunting winding gear of a colliery where an explosion once killed over thirty miners.
- Only a third of collieries had pithead baths before nationalisation.
- The original colliery buildings, including the winding engine-house, the blacksmiths' shop and pithead baths.
- The story of the pithead baths bears him out.
- Under the 1911 Coal Mines Act, pithead baths had to be provided if two-thirds of the miners voted for them.
- Whilst cleaning the pithead baths at the Stillingfleet Colliery Tony was asked to wash the back of a bathing miner.
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