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coal-pit|ˈkəʊlpɪt|
1. A place where charcoal is made. Still in U.S.
1023Charter Cnut in Cod. Dipl. IV. 27 Forð bæ hæselholtæ on collpytt: of collpyttæ on swealewan hlypan. c1275Death 242 in O.E. Misc. 183 His eye-puttes, as a colput deep ant gret. c1450Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker Voc. 718 Fax, a bronde; ticio, a colpytte; fala, a fagot. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 691 Nestorius willing to auoide a colepit, fell into a lime kill..wherby is ment, that in auoyding a lesse error, he fell into a greater. 1828Webster, Coalpit..in America, a place where charcoal is made.
2. A pit or mine where coal is dug.[Cf.1241Newminster Chartul. (Surtees) 202 Sicut fossatum descendit in Colepeteburn.] 1447Indenture in Script. tres Dunelm. (Surtees) App. 313 The colepit in Trillesden, and alsa the colepit in Spennyngmore. 1575Lanc. Wills II. 112 Whereas I have a lease..of too cole pittes. c1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 17 An old Coal-pit which had taken fire. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. i. i, Such as worke day and night in Cole-pits. 1773Barnard in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 218 The shaft of a coal-pit, which..had been sunk to the depth of sixty yards.
attrib.1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 302 On coalpit banks near Stourbridge. 1859Edin. Rev. CIX. 303 The dismal chapter of coal-pit life.
Hence † coal-pitter, a pitman.
1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5818/4 John Proud, of Sunderland..Coal-Pitter. |