CUT AND COVER meaning: Excavation, then construction, followed by covering

We found 10 dictionaries that define the word cut and cover:

General (9 matching dictionaries)

cut-and-cover: Merriam-Webster
cut-and-cover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
cut-and-cover, cut-and-cover: Collins English Dictionary
cut-and-cover: Wordnik
cut-and-cover, cut and cover: Wiktionary
cut-and-cover: Infoplease Dictionary
cut-and-cover, cut and cover: Dictionary.com
Cut-and-cover, Cut and cover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
cut-and-cover: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cut and cover)

▸ noun: (construction, engineering) A method of building a tunnel by digging a trench, constructing tunnel walls therein, and refilling the trench with earth.

Opposite:

tunneling, bored tunneling, deep tunneling

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