| 单词 | pithead |
| 例句 | At the pithead baths, scrubbing off grime and coal dust after a shift underground. 'Pitmen Painters,' story of miners-turned-artists, opens April 26 2012-04-18T22:32:07Z One of the quirkier lots sold included pithead gear from a working mineshaft built by Dibnah, bought by a man who wants to set it up at his property. Fred Dibnah auction raises thousands 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z It is better to burn it at the pithead and transport the electricity thus generated instead. Electricity now flows across continents, courtesy of direct current 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Barnsley Main colliery eventually took over the workings of the Oaks Colliery, with the surviving engine house and the pithead structures Grade II listed. Oaks Colliery disaster: Victims remembered 150 years on - BBC News 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Van Gogh drew the pitheads, the simple homes, the miners' potato patches, even, after an underground visit, the coalface itself. Digging deep, Belgian coalfield shows where Van Gogh emerged 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z We drive on, though a flat landscape punctuated with slag heaps and pithead gear. The Kid With the Kalashnikov Isn't Happy: Ukraine's Revolution One Year On First on the scene at the pithead was Mr Shaw, the mine manager, who had been in the lamp room at the surface when the explosion occurred. The UK’s worst mine disaster 2013-10-14T05:52:19Z The law-and-order problems of coping with pickets not just at the power stations but also at the pitheads would be enormous and would arise from the very outset of the strike. Thatcher wanted troops to move coal 2013-08-01T00:35:18Z The pledge translated into newsreel shots of bricklayers building council houses, pitmen washing in new pithead baths, a doctor taking a child's temperature. 'Squeezed middle' is too cuddly a term for the harm done to British wages 2013-03-16T08:31:01Z And while NUM leaders recently attended a glittering gala dinner with mining company executives early in June, their rivals are working the crowded urban centers, townships and pitheads in their campaign to poach NUM members. Insight: South Africa mine union revolt shows cracks in ANC rule 2012-07-04T07:21:44Z Their base was set off a dusty track on the outskirts of the nondescript village of Phokeng amid a landscape dominated by the pithead buildings and slag heaps of the local platinum mining industry. Euro 2012: England players try to be 'good tourists' in Krakow 2012-06-08T17:02:45Z The blast had brought the whole community to the pithead. The UK’s worst mine disaster 2013-10-14T05:52:19Z Here a vast silent throng of human beings stood expectantly in groups, their faces illuminated by the naphtha flares which had been erected here and there about the long-abandoned pithead. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Still, she crept on south, and at last all of them were sincerely glad when the pithead gear of the Dunsmore mines rose up against the forests of Vancouver Island over the starboard hand. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z She dropped everything and forced the manager to drive her for an hour to the pithead – little more than a big hole in the rocky hillside and a couple of cabins. Los 33: Chilean miners face up to a strange new world 2011-07-16T23:04:14Z Besides attending to the underground arrangements, the improved transit of the coals above-ground from the pithead to the shipping-place, demanded an increasing share of his attention. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson English coal, which in 1912 cost about nine shillings a ton at pithead, costs considerably more than thirty shillings today. An African Adventure To the east rose pitheads, chimneys, and kilns, tier above tier, dim in their own mists. Clayhanger A group of dark figures stood on the pithead, waiting their turn to go below. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner On the surface the pithead was turning into a small town of Winnebagos, satellite dishes and TV presenters. Los 33: Chilean miners face up to a strange new world 2011-07-16T23:04:14Z George Stephenson worked his way from the pithead to the highest position as an engineer. Thrift The average pithead price of South African coal in 1915 was five shillings twopence a ton and at the time of my visit to South Africa in 1919 was still under seven shillings a ton. An African Adventure On their left were two pitheads whose double wheels revolved rapidly in smooth silence, and the puffing engine-house and all the trucks and gear of a large ironstone mine. Clayhanger Months passed, and Robert still worked on the pithead. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner Plumes of smoke rose out of the valley and trailed languidly across the sky, for the river flowed past well-cultivated fields, old-fashioned villages, and rows of sooty cottages that clustered round pithead towers. Carmen's Messenger I went on at the pitheads, and, after a week or so, a miner gave me a chance to go below with him. Between You and Me It was heard at the pithead, and the people crowded there ran hither and thither in dismay, thinking it was another explosion. Sir George Tressady — Volume II He paused for a moment, set the machinery working again, and delivered five more at the pithead. The Clicking of Cuthbert The great wheels at the pithead seemed terrible in their never-ending revolutions, as they flew round to bring up the loads of coal. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner He supposed they marked pithead banks and coke-ovens; but pushed on steadily towards the west. Carmen's Messenger I hauled down my old greasy working clothes, and went off to the pithead. Between You and Me |
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