-
distinguished by the
presence of a heat-sensing
pit organ located between the eye and the
nostril on both
sides of the
head. Currently, 23
genera and 155 species...
-
Pit bull is an
umbrella term for
several types of dog
believed to have
descended from bull and terriers. In the
United States, the term is
usually considered...
- A
headframe (gallows frame,
winding tower,
hoist frame,
pit frame,
shafthead frame, headgear, headstock, poppethead) is the
structure above an underground...
- are a colliery, a coal mine is
called a "
pit", and above-ground
mining structures are
referred to as a "
pit head". In Australia, "colliery"
generally refers...
- The
American Pit Bull
Terrier (APBT) is a dog
breed recognized by the
United Kennel Club (UKC) and the
American Dog
Breeders ****ociation (ADBA), but not...
- ****anese shut off the
ventilation and
sealed the
pit head.
Witnesses say that the ****anese did not
evacuate the
pit fully before sealing it,
trapping many Chinese...
- Big
Pit National Coal
Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr
Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an
industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Tor****, Wales. A
working coal mine...
- The
Hartley Colliery disaster (also
known as the
Hartley Pit disaster or
Hester Pit disaster) was a coal
mining accident in Northumberland, England, that...
- In motorsports, a
pit stop is a
pause for refuelling, new tyres, repairs,
mechanical adjustments, a
driver change, as a penalty, or any
combination of...
-
extracts rock or
minerals from the
earth using a
pit,
sometimes known as a
borrow pit.[citation needed] Open-
pit mines are used when
deposits of commercially...