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pit head

pit head is the alternative form of pithead.

Meaning of pithead

Noun

pithead (plural pitheads)

  1. The area around the top of the mineshaft of a coal mine.
    • Since the war there has been a reallocation of output from pitheads in the North Staffordshire coalfield, resulting in a flow of coal northwards; [...].1962 September, “Remodelling of Basford Hall Yard, Crewe”, in Modern Railways, page 189
  2. A hoverfly of the genus Pipiza.

Forms of pit head

pluralpit heads

Questions about pit head

What is pit head the alternative form of?
Pit head is the alternative form of pithead.

Words near pit head in the dictionary

  1. pit crews
  2. pit frame
  3. pit frames
  4. pit girl
  5. pit girls
  6. pit head
  7. pit heads
  8. pit helmet
  9. pit helmets
  10. pit lane
  11. pit lanes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pit head (page history and authors); pithead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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