adit

adit

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1. 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. Source: opted
2. n. Admission; approach; access. Source: opted
3. n. a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine Source: wordnet
4. 1. 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. 2. Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson. Source: webster
5. n:100 n. a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine Source: ecdict

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