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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mining) Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass.

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  • noun mining undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass
  • verb Present participle of hole.

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See hole a hollow, and -ing.

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