An excavation in the earth made for the purpose of obtaining metals or minerals; a mine; = working, n. 15.

An apparatus or place where fire is used for manufacturing or industrial purposes; a furnace, kiln, etc.; (also) a mineworking where material for…

? A stull piece.

Mining. (See quot. 1851.)

Coal Mining (chiefly English regional). An underground face from which coal is worked; a passageway in which this occurs. Cf. bank, n.1 7a. Now rare.

Mining. A pit containing an engine for pumping out water. Now chiefly historical.

local. See quots., and cf. sump, n.. Also, in Australia, a shallow lake or pond.

Mining. An underground spring or runner of water.

Mining. The coating or crust of a lode or vein; also, the side of a mine next to this.

Coal Mining. A cavity filled with gas or water.

Mining. (See quots.)

A step or notch in the side of a pit, or in an upright beam, to receive the end of a stemple or cross-piece. Also attributive. Obsolete.

a cistern part of the way down a mineshaft, from which water is supplied to the uppermost section of a tier of pumps; cf. rose pump n.

(a) Mining (see quot. 1824); (b) Agriculture a house in which seeds, etc. are placed to ‘strike’, before they are planted out.

Mining (now chiefly Australian). A widened space in a mine, near the shaft, where ore is deposited for hoisting.

= stemple, n. 1.

an enclosed space containing a mesh, grid, or sieve; spec. a tank or other component of a water treatment system, in which solid pollutants are…

A channel, pipe, etc., by which fluid is removed; (Mining) a drift (drift, n. 15) for discharging water (more fully offtake drift).

the underlying side of a mineworking, a vein of ore, or a geological fault; spec. that beneath an inclined vein or fault; contrasted with hanging-wall…

a shaft divided into three compartments lengthwise: see quot.

Mining. (See quots.)

Mining (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). An open excavation in a superficial deposit.

Mining. A horizontal surface where mining or excavation is carried out.

British. Coal Mining. The main building attached to a coal-pit, housing pit machinery, etc. Obsolete. rare.

(see quot. 1869).

(a) a tower in which one or more filtering grids remove solid pollutants from water entering a reservoir; (b) a tall structure in which coal, gravel…

A level surface over which material from a mine is washed in order to separate out the ore.

In hydraulic gold-mining, a settling-box additional to the main sluice.

U.S. Mining. (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage, connecting a stope…

(see quot.).

(see quot. 1881).

a breast or working place in a coal-mine in which the wagons are taken up to the working face.

Coal Mining. The action of, or the work involved in, cutting or blasting down the roof, or building supporting and blocking walls in a coal mine…

an upright structure at the mouth of a mine shaft, supporting the part from which the cage is suspended; cf. poppet-head, n. 2.

(See quot. 1898.)

An excavation in a face to accommodate a coal-cutting machine or loader working into it. Also stable hole.

Mining. A cut at or near roof level in a seam.