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Adit

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Adit"

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Word	Definition
stulmnoun	(mining) A shaft, conduit, adit, or gallery to drain a mine.
entrancenoun	(countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
hadenoun	(geology) A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
downwellnoun	A vertical shaft or well in which water flows downward.
downtakenoun	An outlet for conveying something downward.
ladenoun	(Scotland) A load.
dibholenoun	(UK, mining) The lowest part of a mine, into which the water drains.
ductwaynoun	The space in which ducts are located.
descendingverb	Moving or sloping downwards.
delfnoun	(education) Diplôme d'étude de langue française, a French-language qualification.
drop shaftnoun	Alternative form of dropshaft. [A vertical shaft which objects can drop through.]
dichnoun	Obsolete form of ditch (“to dig a trench”). [(transitive) To discard or abandon.]
drop-shaftnoun	Alternative form of dropshaft. [A vertical shaft which objects can drop through.]
descentnoun	An instance of descending; act of coming down.
dugwaynoun	(US) A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land.
ashdump doornoun	An opening through which the ash is removed from a fireplace.
divenoun	A jump or plunge into water.
dreennoun	(Appalachia) Alternative form of drain. [(chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)]
delftnoun	A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.
delveverb	(ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out