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Mineshaft Moderate

Mineshaft has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine

2

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

See Also
headframe cribbing pit eye mineshafts pithead vertical zama zama shaftman
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
excavation
Rhyming Words
aft naft taft waft raft haft daft chaft draft craft shaft graft abaft bedaft upwaft recraft indraft regraft ingraft engraft
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