Usually means: Surface area of a mine.
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  1. pithead: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pithead: Merriam-Webster
  3. pithead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pithead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pithead: Vocabulary.com
  6. pithead: Wordnik
  7. pithead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pithead: Wiktionary
  9. pithead: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pithead: Dictionary.com
  11. pithead: Rhymezone
  12. pithead: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pithead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pithead: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pithead: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The area around the top of the mineshaft of a coal mine.
noun:  A hoverfly of the genus Pipiza.

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