Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An entry or haulage-road of a coal-mine which starts at the outcrop and follows the bed. See
gangway , 3.
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"Earth-coal" is found in large quantities on the Newstead estate, and the Abbey, far below its foundations, is tunnelled by a coal-drift.] [678] [See Gray's _omitted_ stanza --
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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