pithead
/ˈpɪthɛd
/noun
1The top of a mineshaft.Alongside the headgear at the pithead stood the colliery manager's house....
- But the men who labour far below the last remaining pitheads of Yorkshire are not fuelling the power stations any more.
- Gear later said that their genesis probably lay in the towering pitheads, woods and girders of his industrial childhood.
1.1The area surrounding a pithead.
- malted
- malted milk
- Maltese
- Maltese cross
- Maltese dog
- Maltese lace
- Maltese mushroom
- Maltese terrier
- malt extract
- maltha
- malthacite
- malthazite
- malthoid
- malthouse
- Malthusian
- Malthusianise
- Malthusianism
- Malthusianize
- Malthusian parameter
- Malthus, Thomas Robert
- maltin
- maltiness
- malting floor
- malting house
- malting kiln