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.
- ride man
- rident
- ride-off
- ride on
- ride one's luck
- ride (on) the coattails of
- rideout
- ride pillion
- rider
- ridered
- rideress
- riderless
- rider millstone
- ride roughshod over
- rider's bone
- ridership
- rider stone
- Ride, Sally
- ride-share
- ride-sharing
- ride shotgun
- ride skimmington
- ride someone down
- ride something out
- ride the clutch