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An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.
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Definitions
- n. An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.
- n. Admission; approach; access.
- n. a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine
- n:100 n. a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine