jad

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  1. In coal-mining, a, long gash cut under a mass of coal in “holing,” “kirving,” “benching,” or “undercutting” it, so that it may afterward fall, or be wedged or blasted down.
  2. In quarrying, a long deep hole made in quarrying soft rock for building purposes, whether the gash is horizontal or vertical. The jadding pick … serves for cutting in long and deep holings, juds, or jads, for the purpose of detaching large blocks of stone from their natural beds. Morgans, Mining Tools, p. 148.
  3. In coal-mining and quarrying, to undercut; form a jad in. When the face of any heading from which the stone is to be worked away has been properly jadded under the roof, the side saw-cuts are proceeded with. Morgans, Mining Tools, p. 153.

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  • Excellent!!!! jad: anyone has about our situation in beirut 1 and about the tashnag influence ill be greatfullll txxxxxx —  The Ouwet Front: A Lebanese Forces Blog
  • Mariam Ayyash: ya 7abeebi ya jad, this is one of the times i wish we el 3arab start acting like jews for a moment, in unity that is! —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • Especially when you consider the other half of A'jad's peace and justice agenda. via —  Jules Crittenden
  • We should bring back our church and obtain à judiciary decision to destroy all the illegal constructions on the church lands … If we don't react, they will ... jad: shou fahamkoun ento el zo3ran de l'ouwet its all about tamezouj el hadarat —  The Ouwet Front: A Lebanese Forces Blog
  • How bad it will get? how ... jad: You SOB Karim, where the hell did you read me criticizing the prophet or Islam as a ... norman: Jad, I like what you said, Shami, Do you feel closer to a Muslim from Malaysia or a ... —  Israel Palestine Blogs
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  1. English dial., also jed, jud, judd; origin obscure.
  2. from jad, n.
 

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