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词汇 pit-pony
释义 pit pony
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpɪt ˌpəʊ.ni/ us /ˈpɪt ˌpoʊ.ni/
a small horse used in the past to pull loads down mines(旧时)井下用的小马
 
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Horses & similar animals

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I should like at this point to put in a plea for the overworked pitpony.
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That is not even the price they pay for a pitpony.
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A working man can no longer be regarded as worse than a pitpony.
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I should point out that a private individual cannot just get a pitpony for the asking.
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Surely it does not appear to be a gross misconduct to complain of the suffering of a pitpony.
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Let us take it that he was a pony driver, then the pitpony was working 16 hours as well.
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A lad, aged 17, a pitpony driver, went back to work.
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Have they not heard of technology, or are they so blinkered that they have not noticed the disappearance of the pitpony?
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A boy is fatally injured and the parents receive less than the price of a pitpony as compensation because it is held there is no dependency.
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Mechanical processes are driving out the pitpony, and there is a steadily lessening demand due to mechanical production for this once great product of oats.
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If a person has no dependants, then the sum is £15 or funeral expenses, whichever is the less, which is not the price of a pitpony.
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While there, he was injured when kicked by a pitpony.
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To replace female and child labour the pitpony was more widely introduced.
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There is usually a pitpony on site and the museum has a significant collection of safety lamps.
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At this junction there is one of two pitpony watering holes on the east side of the mountain.
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