Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
screw-alley or shaft-alley.
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Examples
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He glanced back toward the shaft-tunnel leading to the surface of Mimban.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978
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He glanced back toward the shaft-tunnel leading to the surface of Mimban.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978
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From outer to hawse-hole, from shaft-tunnel to crow's-nest, he explored and loved her.
Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923
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When she was dry, I went doun the shaft-tunnel, an 'found she was leakin' a little through the stuffin'box, but nothin 'to make wark.
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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