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Pitman   Listen
noun
Pitman  n.  (pl. pitmen)  
1.
One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
2.
(Mach.) The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.





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"Pitman" Quotes from Famous Books



... speech. As His Honor, presiding, his language was invariably grammatical and precise and as carefully accented as might be expected of a man whose people never had very much use anyway for the consonant "r." As William Pitman Priest, Esq., citizen, taxpayer, and Confederate veteran he mishandled the king's English as though he had but small personal regard for the ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... PITMAN, SIR ISAAC, inventor of the shorthand system which bears his name, born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire; his first publication was "Stenographic Sound-Hand" in 1837, and in 1842 he started the Phonetic Journal, and lectured extensively as well as published in ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


Words linked to "Pitman" :   coal miner, pedagog, Sir Isaac Pitman, mineworker, collier, miner, educator, pedagogue


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