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A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
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A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
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(South America) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand in which diamonds may be found.
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A quarry where chalk is found.
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A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
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Alternative form of clay pit [A quarry for clay]
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Obsolete form of quarry. [(mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.]
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A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.
v
To undo the act of paving; to remove pavement (especially if it is in the form of asphalt, concrete or the like) so as to restore the land to a more natural state.
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The removal of large quantities of soil, e.g. from a construction site.
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One of the branches of a valley or river.
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A quarry from which gravel for construction purposes is obtained.
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A container filled with gravel or stones used as a filtration device
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Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
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A mound of phosphogypsum
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(geology) A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
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(mining) A block upon which ore is broken up.
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A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
adj
Of rock: crushed or broken; resembling mining waste.
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(transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
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(obsolete) Alternative form of quarry [(mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.]
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(mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
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The moisture content of freshly quarried porous stone; the water held in the pores of stone.
adj
(stonemasonry, of stones) Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point.
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Small cast-iron balls cast in sand.
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A tool for throwing sand on newly sized or painted surfaces.
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A person who undertakes sand winning
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(mining) A counterweighted refractory slab used as a gate or door to a small furnace or oven.
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(UK, dialect, Cornwall) A rich piece of ore displayed in order to tempt people to embark in a mining enterprise.
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A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
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Of or pertaining to tin mining, especially in Cornwall.
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A place where quarried stone is processed.
adj
Covered or packaged in styrofoam.
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The muddy sediment of tanpits, dried and used for fuel.
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A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
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