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(historical) A miner or other person who took part in the California gold rush of 1849.
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A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.
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(mining) Suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp, consisting of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and sometimes hydrogen sulfide.
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(mining, archaic) A horizontal channel providing ventilation in a mine.
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(mining) A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
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(mining) A rock breaker.
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(figuratively, dated) An event at which people give household items made of aluminum to the war effort.
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(mining) A mobile cutting machine that can cut horizontally into walls.
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(mining, dialectal) An arch or ceiling of boards placed above the workers' heads in a mine.
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(US, Southwestern US) One who works a mine with means provided by another.
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(mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
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(mining, historical) A person employed to superintend the pit during the "back" or afternoon shift, in the absence of the overman.
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(mining) A sort of iron ore, found in loose masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles.
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(mining, historical) A labourer (loader) working with a band of men.
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(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
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(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
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(mining, historical) A putter: one who puts the tubs of coal from the workings to the cranes, flats, or stations, so that they can be conveyed to the surface.
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(mining) The upward direction of a vein in a mine.
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A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
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(mining) A kind of pickaxe.
v
(mining, obsolete) To reduce (ores).
adj
Relating to coalminers and oil workers.
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(mining) A level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon.
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(air conditioning) A container/tank for refrigerant gas.
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(Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
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A machine which shovels up and carries ore and/or rock in an underground mine
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The point at which two mother lodes intersect.
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(mining) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
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(mining) The coalface parallel to the natural fissures.
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(mining) A mine that is no longer producing profitably.
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(mining) A person employed to attend to the bottom of the shaft.
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(geology) A form of weathering found in caves
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(mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
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(mining) A wooden partition in a coal mine.
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(mining) A worker who erects brattices.
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A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
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(mining) The face of a coal working.
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Alternative form of brattice [(mining) A wooden partition in a coal mine.]
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Alternative form of brattice [(mining) A wooden partition in a coal mine.]
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Alternative form of brattice [(mining) A wooden partition in a coal mine.]
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(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
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(mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
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(mining, historical) The worker in charge of the cages at the pithead.
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(mining, historical) A person who gets the mineral down by blasting in the working face after it has been "holed".
v
(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
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(mining) One who bucks ore.
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An apparatus on which crushed ore is washed.
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(geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
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(mining) A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
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(mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
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(mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
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(US) One who searches for ores; a prospector.
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(mining, historical) A worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.
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(mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
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(mining) Synonym of butty (“miner who works under contract”)
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(mining, historical) An underground mine labourer.
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(mining) A person or machine responsible for managing a mineshaft cage.
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In Roman baths, the hottest room, with a plunge-pool. It preceded the tepidarium and frigidarium.
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Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
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(idiomatic) Something whose sensitivity to adverse conditions makes it a useful early indicator of such conditions; something which warns of the coming of greater danger or trouble by a deterioration in its health or welfare.
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Alternative form of canary in a coal mine [(idiomatic) Something whose sensitivity to adverse conditions makes it a useful early indicator of such conditions; something which warns of the coming of greater danger or trouble by a deterioration in its health or welfare.]
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(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
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(UK, mining slang, obsolete) A large, round mass in a coal seam, forming part of the roof of a coal mine passage; known for posing a serious danger from falling.
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(mining, obsolete) One who works the tailings of a mine to extract small pieces of marketable ore.
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(mining, historical) A contractor for working a pit or part of a pit.
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(mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
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(mining, historical) A person employed by the miners to check the weight of the mined material and thus ensure the proper wages were paid.
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A person, elected by miners, whose task is to check what the mine owner's weighman states has been the amount of coal that has been mined; used especially if the miners' wages are related to production.
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A building that covers a chute and the material being moved on it, particularly coal
n
(railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
adj
(specifically, of a roof in a mine) Adhesive, having coal clinging to it.
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(mining) An unskilled labourer who clears away the rubbish etc.
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(mining) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
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(US, slang) A native or established resident of the traditional coal-mining area of northeastern Pennsylvania; a worker in the mines of this region.
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A cellar or other compartment for storing coal.
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A mine from which coal ore or coal minerals are mined.
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(automotive) One that rolls coal; one that produces copious amounts of partially burnt fuel as black smoke in automotive exhaust on purpose.
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(obsolete, UK) A licensed or official coal measurer in London.
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Alternative spelling of coal bed [(geology) A coal seam.]
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A bin for the storage of coal.
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A device for cutting coal out of the rock face in a coal mine.
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The operator of a coalcutter.
adj
Laden with a supply of coal to be used as fuel.
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A vehicle used for carrying or supplying coal.
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(slang, obsolete) A coalman.
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(mining) The surface of coal exposed by mining, or a part of a coal seam that is currently being mined.
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Any region containing deposits of coal that may be mined.
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One who feeds coal into a furnace.
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The job of feeding coal into a furnace.
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A hod or receptacle for carrying coal.
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A building for the storage of coal.
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Someone who delivers coal.
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The owner or lessee of a coalfield.
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(dated) A dealer in coal.
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One who owns a coal mine.
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A pit where coal is extracted.
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A shed in which coal is stored.
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One who works in a coal mine.
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A site where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.
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A yard where coal is stored.
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(mining) The manual separation of minerals in ore using a hammer.
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An arrangement of pit props used to support a coalface
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(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
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(mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
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A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce.
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(US) A facility that supplies coal.
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(Cornwall, mining, obsolete) A kind of vertical plate in a lode.
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(mining) An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.
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(mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
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A basket used in coal mines, etc.; a corf.
n
A miner's underground working time or shift.
n
(mining) A large basket, especially as used for coal.
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(mining) Obsolete form of corf. [(mining) A large basket, especially as used for coal.]
n
(mining, historical) A person who makes corves, or coal baskets.
v
(mining) To search for lodes by sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, so as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
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An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
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(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
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(mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
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A quantity of mined earth that is washed at one time in a cradle.
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(mining) A portion of a stratum or vein left in excavating to support the roof.
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(mining) The tin ore that collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle.
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(mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
v
(geology, intransitive) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal.
n
(mining) A vein or lode that crosses the main lode, sometimes accompanied by a change of course in the main lode.
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(mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
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A vein of ore that intersects another.
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(mining) A cross-measure tunnel or drift.
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(mining) A worker who drills blasting holes, prepares the explosive charge, and removes blasted rock.
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(archaic or historical, mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
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(mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
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(mining, historical) An underground mine worker who was paid a daily rate.
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The upper stratum of coal.
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(mining) the portion of a vein in which there is no ore
n
(mining) The substances that enclose the ore on every side.
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One who removes explosive mines.
v
(mining) to remove a pillar, or pillars, from a mine
n
(mining, historical) A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.
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A person whose hobby is the use of a metal detector to search for buried coins, etc.
v
(mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
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(Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
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(obsolete, mining) The shaking of tin ore in a sieve held underwater so that the waste flows out, leaving the tin behind.
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(mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
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(obsolete, mining, chiefly Cornwall) A process for separating the dust from ore.
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(mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
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(mineralogy) Inferior ore, separated from the better ore by cobbing.
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(mining, historical) A wagoner or person who pushes underground tubs.
n
(mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
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Mining for gold by means of drifts in the gravel and detritus of old riverbeds.
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(mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
n
(mining) A pile of ore or rock.
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(mining) The rock of an elvan vein, or the vein itself.
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(mining) work done at the face, such as the coalface
n
A miner who works at the face (especially at the coalface)
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(mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
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(mining) The amount of money paid to a miner based on fathoms of material worked.
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(mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
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(mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
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(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
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A person in charge of ascertaining the safety of a mine (excavation).
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(UK, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
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(mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
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(mining, historical) A craneman working with tubs and flats.
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(mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
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(mining) The under wall of an enclosed vein.
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(mining) A supervisor in charge of overmen.
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(Britain, mining) The face of a mine working.
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(mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
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(Britain) Someone who has earned the right to work his/her own mine in the Forest of Dean.
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(mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
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(mining) A kind of conveyor belt on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.
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(mining) An apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water.
n
(obsolete) A drilling or perforating machine or apparatus for mining and mineral exploration.
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In Ghana, a person who performs illegal gold mining independently of mining companies.
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(mining) A level or drive in a mine.
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(coal-mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
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(mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.
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A worker who carries ore from the gantry to the kiln to be calcined prior to smelting.
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(mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
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(mining, historical) A kind of road repair worker in coal mines.
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A pitman who works in a coal mine.
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(mining, historical) A miner who dug coal, contrasted with the putter, who took it to the surface.
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(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
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(mining) The lining of a shaft with stones or bricks to prevent collapse.
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(mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
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(mining) A piece of earth containing ore.
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A live coal, an ember or molten metallic bead such that skids or slides across a cooler surface.
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(mining) A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
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(mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
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(mining) The waste left in old workings; goafing
n
(uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
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(mining) Waste material in old mine workings.
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(mining) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal; gob stuff.
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(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
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(US, dialect) In hydraulic mining, a grating used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.
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(UK, dialect, Derbyshire, archaic) A miner.
n
(mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
n
(mining, historical) The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.
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(mining) The space left by the removal of ore.
n
(mining) A level; a mine working.
n
(US, obsolete) One who supplies money to work a mine.
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(mining) the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein
n
(mining) the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.
n
A miner who works by himself.
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A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft.
n
(mining) A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft.
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(mining) the structure supporting machinery above the entrance to an underground mineshaft.
n
(mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
n
(coal-mining) A cross-heading.
n
(mining, historical) The elevated framework of wood or iron at bank, to the top of which the pit is continued above the surface, to provide the necessary height to pass the coals over the skreens into the wagons.
n
(mining, historical) A boy employed to assist the barrowman out of a dip place.
n
(mining) The unexcavated face of exposed overburden and coal in a surface mine.
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(geology) A geological law stating that the deeper coal is found, the higher its rank (carbon content). It holds true when the thermal gradient is entirely vertical.
n
(historical) A member of an old merchant guild in Newcastle, in charge of coal shipping, etc.
n
(originally Britain, dialectal and US) A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
n
(mining, obsolete) A coal miner who hauls hods from the workface
n
(mining) undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass.
n
The gravel that remains in the hopper of a cradle while panning for gold.
n
(UK, dialect) A dish used by miners to measure ore.
n
A bed shared by workers, sailors, or soldiers operating in shifts or watches (named for the idea that it is still warm when the next occupant gets into it).
n
(Casting (metalworking)) a live open riser with a hot ceramic liner, designed to counteract the formation of harmful hollows when casting objects of materials such as metals into molds.
n
(mining) A bucket for hoisting coal or ore.
n
(Britain, obsolete) A young boy or girl employed in a coal mine to drag baskets or small wagons full of coal from the coal face where it was mined, up to the surface.
n
The use of a heavy discharge of water to uncover a mineral vein or wash ore.
n
(mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
v
(transitive) To mine using the technique of hydraulic mining.
v
Obsolete form of hydraulic. [(transitive) To mine using the technique of hydraulic mining.]
adv
Alternative form of inbye [(mining) pertaining to the direction towards the coal face.]
adv
(mining) pertaining to the direction towards the coal face.
n
(mining, historical) A miner working on an inclined plane.
n
A transparent box for holding small live animals.
n
(mining, now rare) A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
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(mining) holing (undercutting a bed of coal)
n
(mining) Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
n
(mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
n
(mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
n
(mining) An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones.
n
(mining) A mass of coal holed or undercut so as to be thrown down by wedges.
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(mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
n
(mining, dated) A pile of rocks.
n
An inspector of the hewers in a coal mine.
n
(mining) A large vat used in dressing ores.
n
(geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
n
(mining) A smooth cylindrical piece of petrified wood in the ceiling of a mine which may drop down and injure or kill miners
n
(geology) A lake formed in a kettle hole.
n
(mining, Scotland) A hand-operated jumper.
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(mining, dated) Small particles of ore.
n
(mining) Lagging, or cross-pieces placed to prevent ore from falling into a passage.
n
(mining, historical) The person in charge of the Davy lamps in a mine.
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(mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
n
In the United States, a person involved in determining, transferring, or managing mineral rights, to include oil (petroleum) and natural gas exploration, development, and production.
n
(mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
n
a machine used in mining placer deposits, which washes paydirt slurries pumped into the top of machine, extracting pebbled ores though its sluice runs into its riffles, grates and miner's moss, a type of washplant
n
(countable, mining) A lode.
n
(mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
n
An area where lead ore is mined
n
A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
n
(mining) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
n
(mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
n
(mining) A long wall of coal that is mined in a single slice.
n
(mining, dialect) the clay or slime washed from tin ore in dressing
n
The running together of ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.
n
(specifically, mining) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
n
(mining) One who handles or manages a lurry.
n
A perforated floor in the chamber of a malt kiln, through which heat rises for drying.
n
(mining) A shuttle for transporting miners down into an underground mine.
n
(mining, historical) A workman who takes the roof down to give the miners more height to work in.
n
(mining) A support for the centre of a tunnel.
n
(mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
n
Alternative form of mineshaft [A vertical hole through the strata to reach the mineral which is being mined.]
n
An area in which land mines or naval mines have been laid.
n
The process of seeking out mines in order to destroy them.
n
The operational lifespan of a mine (site for excavating resources).
n
Someone who owns a mine.
n
A person who works in a mine.
n
(idiomatic) Any thing, especially an organism, whose demise or distress provides an early warning of danger.
n
(mining) Carpeting in sluice boxes used to collect heavy minerals from sluiced paydirt.
n
(idiomatic) Any thing, especially an organism, whose demise or distress provides an early warning of danger.
n
(archaic) A mining business.
n
(idiomatic, law, England & Wales) Alternative form of mines and minerals. [(property law, England & Wales, idiomatic) The legal title to geological resources in the subsurface of a piece of land, usually by reference to being in the same or separate ownership to the surface of that land.]
n
(property law, England & Wales, idiomatic) The legal title to geological resources in the subsurface of a piece of land, usually by reference to being in the same or separate ownership to the surface of that land.
n
A vertical hole through the strata to reach the mineral which is being mined.
n
The place where a mine (excavation) is located.
n
A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines).
n
The work carried out in a mine.
n
One who works in a mine.
n
The branch of engineering that is applied to mining.
n
The pooling of resources by cryptocurrency miners who share their processing power and split the reward.
n
(mining) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
n
(geology) A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend.
n
Alternative form of mother lode [(geology) A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend.]
n
A method of coal mining which involves stripping a mountain bare of vegetation, blasting off the top of the mountain with explosives, and storing the copious waste in nearby valleys and streams.
n
A type of flat mud volcano, a bubbling mud hole/mudhole, a mud pool/mudpool. A hotspring or fumarole filled with mud.
n
(Australia, New Zealand, mining) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
n
(New Zealand, mining) A worker who clears waste material from a mine.
n
Obsolete form of mine. [An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.]
n
(mining) The construction of passages, air-shafts, etc.
n
(mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
n
(mining) Small coal produced during cutting at the side of the coalface.
n
(informal) An individual who unofficially digs or pans for gold in Mongolia.
n
(mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
n
(mining) The situation where the roof and thill approach each other, diminishing the usual thickness of the coal seam or extinguishing it completely.
n
(mining) The refuse from good ore.
n
(Australia, mining) A fossicker, someone who scours mine dumps for valuables.
n
(coal-mining) The cost of upkeep, making and maintaining shafts, roads, pumping, etc.
n
(mining, historical) Any workman who was paid a daily rate.
n
(mining, historical, UK, dialect, Northern England) A worker at the bottom of a mineshaft who exchanges the empty and full corves.
adj
Alternative form of opencast [(chiefly Britain) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed]
n
A type of mine where rock or minerals are extracted from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.
adj
(chiefly Britain) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed
n
(mining) A quarry; an open cut.
n
Any treatment of an ore used to concentrate its valuable constituents (minerals) into products (concentrate) of smaller bulk, and simultaneously to collect the worthless material (gangue) into discardable waste (tailings).
n
(mining) land from which ore is mined
adv
Alternative form of outbye [(mining) In the direction away from the coal face.]
adv
(mining) In the direction away from the coal face.
n
(mining) A device used to cut into rock walls from above.
adj
(mining) Done from below upward.
n
Obsolete form of ore. [Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.]
n
(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
n
(In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
n
A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
n
(mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
n
(mining, historical) The driver's assistant or lackey in a team of miners.
n
(mining) Earth which contains profitable quantities of ore.
n
Alternative spelling of pay dirt [(mining) Earth which contains profitable quantities of ore.]
n
(mining) The zone, parallel to the walls of a vein, in which the ore is concentrated, or any narrow streak of paying ore in less valuable material.
n
(mining) An unexcavated portion of a shaftway, intended to afford protection from falling debris to workers at the bottom of the shaft during certain stages of mining.
n
A miner who works with a pick.
n
(mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
n
One who works on oil pipelines.
n
The bottom of a central mineshaft.
n
(mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
n
The work of a coal miner who is paid in a share of the mined material.
n
(mining) Subsidence below ground in a mine, which can cause the ground level above to drop.
n
The area around the top of the mineshaft of a coal mine.
adj
(mining) alluvial; occurring in a deposit of sand or earth on a river-bed or bank, particularly with reference to precious metals such as gold or silver
n
(mining) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial (compass), the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.
n
(mining) A nugget of virgin metal.
n
(mining) A jigging machine used in the South African diamond industry.
n
A man employed to operate a pump, as in a mine.
n
A device in a coke oven for levelling the coal, traditionally operated by a pusherman.
n
A person employed to operate the pusher device of a coke oven.
v
(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
n
(mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine.
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Somebody who works in a quarry.
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A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).
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The person in charge of a quarry.
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(mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
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(mining) A bed of shale over the seam of coal.
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(mining) The direction of a rake-vein.
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the emptying of material only in the center of a hopper or silo, leaving behind circumferential material.
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(Australia, South Africa) A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
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(mining) intercalated with slate; said of a seam of coal.
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(mining, now rare) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
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(mining) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough.
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(mining) A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
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(UK, obsolete, mining) A bed or stratum of some mineral.
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Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
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A quarry worker who handles the blocks of slate.
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(UK, dialect, mining) A measurement of coal ore.
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(mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
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(mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
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(colloquial, chiefly US) A labourer on an oil rig.
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A mineral deposit associated with the crest of an anticlinal fold and following the bedding planes, usually found in vertical succession, especially the gold-bearing quartz veins of Australia.
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(mineralogy, Australia) A saddle-shaped bedded mineral vein in the form of an anticline or a syncline (an inverted saddle).
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A piece of laboratory equipment consisting of a container filled with heated sand, that is used to provide an even source of heat.
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An apparatus for separating sand from earthy substances.
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The finer portion of crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.
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(Cornwall, mining) A vein of tin.
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(mining, historical) A person employed to filter the mined coal through a metal screen to remove impurities.
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(mining, historical) A person employed to screen the coal to remove impurities.
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(mining) A bed of clay that underlies a coal seam.
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(mining) That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.
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A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine
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A man who sinks a mineshaft.
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(mining) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
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(mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
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(mining, tunnelling) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
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(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
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(mining) To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.
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(mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
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(mining) A short wall of coal that is mined in a single slice.
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(mining) A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
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(mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
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(mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
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(mining) Small coal; coal dust.
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A large container full of water or oil or brine used by a blacksmith to quench hot metal.
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Waste material from a mine.
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(mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
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(mining) A stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed.
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A very fine waste material produced by hydraulic mining which tends to contaminate waterways.
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(US, dialect, mining) The lighter soil of hydraulic mines.
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(mineralogy) A narrow vein of ore.
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(mining, UK, Cornwall, obsolete) half-roasted ores
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(mining) half-roasted ore
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(mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
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A box with riffles along the bottom, used to trap heavier gold particles as water washes them and the other material along the box.
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Alternative form of sluice box [A box with riffles along the bottom, used to trap heavier gold particles as water washes them and the other material along the box.]
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A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices.
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(mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
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(mining, historical) A boy employed to put small coals to a stowboard.
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(UK dialectal, Northern England) A layer of clay or shale between two beds of coal.
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(UK, obsolete) Small lumps of ore which free miners scavenged because small quantities were exempt from payment of taxes. The practice ended in 1760 when the Duke of Devonshire challenged the tax exemption.
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(mining) A short rope used to pull the tram in a coal-mine.
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(mining) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.
v
(mining) To break ground; to continue working.
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(mining) Synonym of splent coal
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Alternative form of splent coal [An inferior kind of cannel coal from Scottish collieries, having a slaty structure.]
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(mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
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(mining) A small vein of ore.
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(mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
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(mining) The space left by excavation between pillars.
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(mining, historical) A subcontractor in charge of a stall or working place.
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(mining) A reservoir in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
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(mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
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(mining) A shelf set into a mineshaft for storing waste material, or for use as a step or support.
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(mining) Alternative form of stempel [(mining) A shelf set into a mineshaft for storing waste material, or for use as a step or support.]
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(UK, dialect) An opening in a wall in a coal mine.
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(geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
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(mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
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(mining) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
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(mining, historical) A miner who makes excavations in hard strata other than coal.
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A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
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(mining) A kind of drill for excavating stopes.
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(mining) A wooden landmark to indicate possession of mining land.
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(mining) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
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(mining) A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.
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Alternative form of streamwork [(mining) A place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked.]
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(mining) One who searches for stream tin.
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(mining, Cornwall) A place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked.
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(mining) To find a vein of ore.
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(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
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(mining) A trough for washing ore.
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A mine where the material above the ore is removed (stripped) to expose it for removal and use.
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To mine by creating a strip mine, usually for coal or tar sands.
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(mining) A prop supporting a platform in a mine.
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(UK, dialect, mining) A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones.
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(UK, dialect) A shaft, conduit, adit, or gallery to drain a mine.
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(mining) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
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An intermediate level between others in a mine
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The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
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(mining) A pitman's assistant, responsible for the machinery in the engine shaft.
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(mining) A miner who works in the open air, rather than underground.
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(mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
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(UK, dialect, dated, mining, tin mining) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work.
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(UK, dialect, mining, historical) An abnormal local thickening of a seam of coal.
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(mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing.
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(mining, historical) A person employed to unhook the wagons at self-acting inclines.
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(historical) A warm room in a Roman baths that was usually heated by a hypocaust.
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(mining) The shallow stratum of underclay that lies under a seam of coal; the bottom of a coal-seam.
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(mining, possibly obsolete) A short communication between adits in a mine.
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(mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
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(mining) The ruins of the fallen roof in a coal mine, resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.
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(mining) In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast.
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(mining, historical) A person employed to remove timber props.
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A person who installs timbers in a mine
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(mining) One who works at a tipple.
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(mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
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(colloquial, oil industry) A tool dresser.
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(mining) The process of washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; tozing.
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(historical) A mine-worker who transported the mined material by dragging a tram.
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(mining) A (usually, child) worker who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access.
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(mining) A miner who is paid in a certain portion of the ore, or its value.
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(mining) A miner who was paid a percentage of the value of whatever ore he mined.
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(mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
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(mining) A wooden trough forming a drain.
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(mining) A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.
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(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
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(mining) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.
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(mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
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(mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
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(mining, archaic) Work done by the piece, as in non-metalliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom.
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(mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
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(mining) A trough for washing ores.
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(mining) The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.
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(mining) An air-passage crossing a road in a mine by means of an airtight box or channel beneath it.
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(mining) A device for cutting into rock walls from below.
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(mining) To excavate downward in successive steps or horizontal slices while positioned above on unbroken ore.
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(mining) To cut away or mine out the lower portion of a coal seam or a part of the underlay so as to win or get the overlying coal.
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(mining, transitive, intransitive, of a vein, fault, or lode) To incline from the vertical.
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(mining) A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
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(mining) A daily inspector of a mine.
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(mining) An underlooker; the manager responsible for a colliery in the absence of the viewer.
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(mining) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
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(mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
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A machine for concentrating ore.
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A man employed to operate a vanner (machine for concentrating ore).
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(mining) Minerals found in a vein, of lesser value than ores.
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(UK, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.
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(mining, historical) The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.
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(mining, historical) A boy employed to pick out stones, pyrites, etc. remaining in the coal after it is screened.
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(UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
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(mining, uncountable) Underclay in a coal mine.
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(mining) Earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing.
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The place in the above-ground part of a coal mine where coal is washed.
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(mining) A person who works in a washery in a mine.
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(mining) Any earthy deposit containing enough gold to pay for washing it.
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A type of machine used to extract ores from paydirt when mining placer deposits, using water and sedimentation processing.
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(mining, historical) A person employed to examine the state of the mine workings, to check that they are properly ventilated, and sometimes to build pillars to support the roof in the waste.
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(mining, historical) A person employed to clean the rails, removing coaldust etc.
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(UK, dialect, Cornwall, mining) A mine.
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The portion of a coalfield out for working.
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A steep shaft in a mine which joins two levels.
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(mining) A man in charge of a winze in a mine.
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(mining, UK, dialect, Cornwall) Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.
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(mining, historical) A person employed to carry wooden props to parts of the mine where they are needed.
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(mining) Ore before it is dressed.
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The exposed surface of an underground mine that is currently being worked
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The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (or has been) worked.
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(South Africa) A person who works illegally in abandoned mineshafts in order to retrieve metals or minerals.
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