What is to secure from leaking, as a chaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond called?
coffer — (Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a chaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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