Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, a wooden pipe to carry off water while putting the watertight casing to a shaft.
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Examples
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The plug, with a canvas cistern, is the easiest mode of obtaining water; the plug-box being only the size of a paving-stone, is no annoyance in the street, and the water has only one angle to turn before it is delivered.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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When both these plugs were allowed to flow freely without hose, the water from that nearest the large main, rose about 18 inches, and the farther one about 1 inch above the plug-box.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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