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Adit

noun
1.
A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.





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"Adit" Quotes from Famous Books



... require double tracks and fairly straight roads. While they are economical in operation and work with little danger to operatives, the limitations mentioned preclude them from adoption in metal mines, except in very special circumstances such as main crosscuts or adit tunnels, where the haulage is straight and concentrated from many sources ...
— Principles of Mining - Valuation, Organization and Administration • Herbert C. Hoover
... And I learned his story one day from an old miner, as we ate our bread and cheese together on the floor of Wheal Tregobbin, while the Davy lamp between us made wavering giants of our shadows on the walls of the adit, and the sea moaned as it tossed on its bed, two hundred ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


Words linked to "Adit" :   passage, mine


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