pit-eye

• pit eye

pit-eye (plural pit-eyes)

1. The bottom of a central mineshaft.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 402:

     The cages came up crammed and crammed again with the men nearest the pit-eye, as they call the place where you can see daylight from the bottom of the main shaft.

• eye-pit