pitman

noun, plural pit·men for 1, pit·mans for 2.

1. a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
2. Machinery. any of certain types of connecting rods.

noun

1. Sir Isaac,1813–97, English inventor of a system of shorthand.

noun plural -men

1. mainly Scot and Northern English a person who works down a mine, esp a coal miner

noun

1. Sir Isaac. 1813–97, English inventor of a system of phonetic shorthand (1837)