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- noun Plural form of
mineshaft .
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Examples
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Keynes proposed burying money in mineshafts, so that workers would be hired to dig it out.
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Old mineshafts and ruins dramatically permeate the hillsides as one ascends to Real de Catorce, a 90-minute bus trip from the nearest town: Matehuala.
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Since 1975, at the north end of the mountains, roads, wells and mineshafts have been built and workshops and townships established in what was a strict nature reserve in 1944.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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Old mineshafts and ruins dramatically permeate the hillsides as one ascends to Real de Catorce, a 90-minute bus trip from the nearest town: Matehuala.
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In primitive fashion, they seek out their prey, hiding in secret holes that descend into the mountain where they live in the old mineshafts.
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Bolano sometimes uses it to mean death or oblivion, and 2666 is pockmarked with pits and craters and mineshafts and ravines, images of the grave.
enowning enowning 2009
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Bolano sometimes uses it to mean death or oblivion, and 2666 is pockmarked with pits and craters and mineshafts and ravines, images of the grave.
Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009
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South Australians & Northern Territorians are generally Ned-Kelly beard wearing, singlet wearing, truck driving pschopaths with a tendancy to stab people with screwdrivers & dump the bodies down disused mineshafts, or in barrels in old bank safes.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Quick but worthwhile distraction. 2009
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Keynes talked about this 75 years ago, when he said that government could attack the Depression by burying cash in mineshafts and hiring people to dig it up.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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Keynes talked about this 75 years ago, when he said that government could attack the Depression by burying cash in mineshafts and hiring people to dig it up.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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