Word Meanings - PITCHWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.

Related words: (words related to PITCHWORK)

• SHAREBEAM
  The part of the plow to which the share is attached.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• MINERVA
  The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• SHAREBROKER
  A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• MINERALOGY
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
• SHAREWORT
  A composite plant growing along the seacoast of Europe.
• MINERALIST
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• SHARER
  One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer.
• PRODUCTRESS
  A female producer.
• MINERALOGIZE
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.
• MINERALIZER
  An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
• MINERALIZE
  1. To transform into a mineral. In these caverns the bones are not mineralized. Buckland. 2. To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
• SHARE
  1. The part of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare. 2. The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed. Knight.
• SHAREHOLDER
  One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property.
• SHAREBONE
  The public bone.
• PRODUCT
  The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• CALCIMINER
  One who calcimines.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• UNDERMINER
  One who undermines.
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• TERMINER
  A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.
• DOWN-SHARE
  A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. Knight.