What is a passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel called?
drift — (Mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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