pit housen.
/ˈpɪt haʊs/, U.S. /ˈpɪt ˌhaʊs/ 1. British.† a. Coal Mining. The main building attached to a coal-pit, housing pit machinery, etc. Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine
work1474
firework1606
stemple1653
stool1653
bink1675
engine pit1687
swamp1691
feeder1702
wall1728
bag1742
sill1747
stope1747
rose cistern1778
striking-house1824
plat1828
stemplar1828
screen chamber1829
offtake1835
footwall1837
triple pit1839
stamp1849
paddock1852
working floor1858
pit house1866
ground-sluice1869
screen tower1871
planilla1877
undercurrent1877
mill1878
blanket-sluice1881
stringing-deal1881
wagon-breast1881
brushing-bed1883
poppet-leg1890
slippet1898
stable1906
overcut1940
1866 Times 24 Dec. 6/3 The dwellings in which the miners were housed stretched in a long row from the Pit-house.
1885 Times 21 Aug. 4/4 The pit-house..throbbed and trembled at each pulsation of the engine.
b. A house built near a coal mine, originally as accommodation for miners and their families.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people
grass house1557
woman-house1566
fishing-house1676
family house1727
henhouse1785
women-house1792
bachelor('s) hall1841
bachelor-apartment1857
garçonnière1927
bachelor1968
bachelorette1973
pit house1974
squat1975
1974 Times 16 Nov. 4/1 The board announced this summer that it would evict at least 70 families from pithouses occupied by former miners.
1994 Observer (Nexis) 27 Nov. 13 My most vivid memory is of my late father (a miner) coming home drunk on a Friday night... I was ashamed of him, our pit-house—my whole life really.
2003 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 1 Nov. 15 The scheme..will see 950 former pit houses demolished to make way for luxury new homes.
2. A semi-subterranean dwelling, the floor and walls being made by excavation; esp. one used by North American Indians. Cf. house pit n. at house n.1 and int. Compounds 10.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > cave or underground dwelling
earth houseeOE
cavec1220
bikea1522
mattamore1695
subterranean1714
subterrane1759
yurt1780
weem1792
subterrene1793
ice cave1810
gibber-gunyah1847
dugout1855
fogou1864
abri1887
pit house1907
1907 W. Hough Antiq. Upper Gila & Salt River Valleys 63 (caption) Plan of ruin, at head of Stevens cienaga, showing pit-houses and grading.
1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage ii. 62/1 They had lived in pit houses, partly sunk beneath the desert surface and surmounted by thatch roofs.
2000 Native Peoples: Arts & Lifeways No. 5. 26/3 The Mogollons are also credited with developing the pit house or kiva.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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