pitman

A worker employed inside a pit in various industrial operations, as in a coal mine.

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One who works in a pit, as in coal-mining, in sawing timber, etc. Specifically

The man who looks after the pumping machinery within the shaft of a mine.

In machinery, the rod which connects a rotary with a reciprocating part, either for imparting motion to the latter or taking motion from it, as that which couples a crank with a saw-gate, or a steam-piston with its crank-shaft, etc. Also called connectingrod. See also cut under stone-breaker.

One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.

The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.

One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.

A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill.