Usually means: Vertical tunnel for extracting minerals.
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  1. mineshaft: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mineshaft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mineshaft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mineshaft: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Mineshaft, mineshaft: Wordnik
  7. mineshaft: Wiktionary
  8. mineshaft: Dictionary.com
  9. Mineshaft (disambiguation), Mineshaft (gay club), Mineshaft (horse), Mineshaft (magazine), Mineshaft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. mineshaft: Rhymezone
  11. mineshaft: FreeDictionary.org
  12. mineshaft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. mineshaft: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mineshaft: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A vertical hole through the strata to reach the mineral which is being mined.

Similar:
shaft, glory hole, hatch, bank, hitch, well, headframe, downcast, station, road, more...

Opposite:
skyscraper, tower, surface, summit, peak

Types:
coal mine, gold mine, silver mine, oil well, quarry, more...

Adjectives:
old, disused, deep, open, collapsed, new, dark, main, vertical, phoenician, dirty

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Similar:
shaft, glory hole, hatch, bank, hitch, well, headframe, downcast, station, road, more...

Opposite:
skyscraper, tower, surface, summit, peak

Types:
coal mine, gold mine, silver mine, oil well, quarry, more...

Adjectives:
old, disused, deep, open, collapsed, new, dark, main, vertical, phoenician, dirty



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