A pony that hauled loads in a coal mine.
Example sentencesExamples
- When they closed that mine in 1990 the pit ponies were released into a green field on a neighbouring farm.
- Though small of stature, Harvey was built like a pit pony and had the rough-hewn features of a Klondiker.
- Dr Raisman's great-grandfather traded in horses, many of which became pit ponies in Yorkshire's collieries.
- A young man learns the value of honesty as he befriends a mine pit pony.
- Bernard used to recall how as a lad of 14 in Yorkshire he was sent down the pits to mind the pit ponies.