Pit-eye

Alternative forms

• pit eye

Full definition of pit-eye

Noun

1. The bottom of a central mine shaft.
• 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 402:The cages came up crammed and crammed again with the men nearest the pit-eye, as they call the place where you can see daylight from the bottom of the main shaft.