pit-prop

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The OED has references to this word only from 1883 but it was in use much earlier: 1815 Joseph Rhoades for pit props Ł3 18s 6d, Soil Hill and it may be implicit in an even earlier Northowram lease: 1633 all the charges of tools, props and stoops.

dates 1633 1815

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