pit-props

We carry coal, pit-props and light machinery and make out in a hand-to-mouth sort of way until the Atlantic gets reasonable enough for our rather small ships.

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

The other people agreed, provided the officer ransomed him with half a dozen pit-props and ten sheets of corrugated iron.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

A shell hit the roof and smashed the pit-props down on top of the two soldiers.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

At several points the trench was roofed with heavy pit-props and sandbags proof against any shrapnel fire.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

It is a log construction, built of pit-props from a neighbouring coal-mine.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

In any case they could hardly fail to see if anything other than pit-props was loaded.

The Pit Prop Syndicate Freeman Wills Crofts 1918

So we may take it that whatever else they're up to, they're not carrying brandy in faked pit-props.

The Pit Prop Syndicate Freeman Wills Crofts 1918

As far as you learned, these people's boat runs the pit-props to England, but carries nothing back.

The Pit Prop Syndicate Freeman Wills Crofts 1918

"There is not so much money in the pit-props as I had hoped," Mr. Coburn explained.

The Pit Prop Syndicate Freeman Wills Crofts 1918

Everywhere between the lines were stacks of pit-props as well as blocks and cuttings.

The Pit Prop Syndicate Freeman Wills Crofts 1918