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Mineshaft
Mineshaft meaning
A vertical hole through the strata to reach the mineral which is being mined.
Synonyms of Mineshaft
Example sentences (3)
They were herded into the forest, pushed into an abandoned mineshaft and grenades were then hurled into the mineshaft.
Work on the access arrangements at Walkden Station is delayed due to the discovery of a mineshaft on site.
The report noted that a mean dust concentration in a mineshaft of 8mg/m would yield a probability of 0.2 that a healthy miner would contract pneumoconiosis; doubling this concentration to 16mg/m would see this probability almost quadruple to 0.7.