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In coal-mining, walls of cord-wood piled up crosswise to keep the underground roads open so as to secure ventilation.
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(Australia) Someone who repairs or installs windscreens in vehicles
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A workshop where steam boilers are constructed, overhauled or repaired.
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Alternative form of bolthole [A hole in an animal's den, or through a wall or fence, used for escape or emergency exit; i.e. a hole the animal may bolt through.]
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Someone who operates the winch in a mine.
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(mining) The front of a furnace.
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The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
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(intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
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(dated) A person who deals in coal, either on a large scale or in a particular locality, where coal was weighed and bagged by the merchant, delivered to households and tipped into a coal bunker.
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(mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
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(mining, historical) A boy employed to hoist the corves of coals on to the rolleys with the crane.
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Any of the hoops making up the framework used to support cladding over a boiler.
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A member of an oil drilling rig who works on a derrick suspended above the rig floor, manhandling the drillpipe.
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An opening left in the wall of a steeple, tower, barn, etc. to allow light to enter.
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A person in charge of a drilling rig.
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A person who operates an excavator.
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(mining, historical) A safety inspector in coal mines.
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(quarrying) A car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.
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The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
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A chamber, with a roof covered by a deep pile of gravel, within which nuclear warheads may be maintained; in the event of a (non-nuclear) explosion, the roof is weakened and the gravel falls and prevents the escape of nuclear material
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(mining) The part of a plunger pump that contains the valve.
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(mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
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The lifting gear at the head of a mine or deep well.
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A structure built at the top of a ventilation shaft or mineshaft.
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Industrial machinery that is large and heavy.
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(mining) The forepump in the pit of a mine.
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(mining) A person who operates the hoisting machinery.
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(mining) A space at the top of a mineshaft that holds the elevator to lift humans and equipment using a pulley and cable.
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A steel girder supporting the roof of a mine tunnel.
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(transitive) To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.
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A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
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(mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
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A water tower taking the form of a single high pillar, rather than an exterior truss structure.
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(carpentry) A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key that fastens them.
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An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
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A valve fitted in the bottom of a ship's fuel, water or ballast tank that allows seawater to enter for the purposes of cleaning and to admit water ballast.
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A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
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(mining) The wall under a vein; the footwall.
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The act or process of creating or developing a ledge (in mining, building, etc), or the ledge so created.
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(mining) Lagging or longitudinal timber resting on caps to support the roof of a working.
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(construction) An airlock through which workers pass into a chamber of compressed air, especially used in mines.
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A wooden beam used as a support within a mineshaft or tunnel.
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(Australia) A saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle).
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(mining) The man who loads and operates the skip in a mine.
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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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(mining, historical) A clip used to connect a rope to a tub of coal in order to haul it.
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In a high building, a stairway protected by several inches of concrete and entered through a kind of "air lock" that prevents the poluted smoke to enter inside it.
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(US, military, slang) An event with food, sporting contests, etc. held on the flight deck of a ship.
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A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
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(dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
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(mining, historical) A worker who attends the switches or passing places on the underground railways.
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A brick housing that protects an access point where pipes beneath London could be plugged for maintenance.
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The senior worker in charge of an oil drilling rig.
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(mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; a weather door.
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A device used to pour concrete underwater, usually a tube of sheet metal with a hopper-like top generally handled by a crane.
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(mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
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(mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
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(Scotland, archaic) A mill race.
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The open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.
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Alternative form of wheelpit [A pit in the ground, in which the lower part of a flywheel runs.]
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(mining) A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
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(mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
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(mining, historical) An underground route for ventilation in a mine.
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