adit

Example Sentences

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"As soon as you go in through that adit, you could literally be back in the 1800s," he said.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2021

Once the tunnel was in use, the adit served as a ventilation shaft.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021

Garrett Wake, Division of Minerals southern Nevada chief, classified Roman’s home as an adit - a horizontal opening in a hillside that he said didn’t present much of a danger.

From Washington Times • Nov. 29, 2019

Lina points to a low tunnel leading off the main passage, an access adit perhaps two feet high.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2019

The word in this narrow sense is as old as "adit," a term less expressive and not so generally used in the English-speaking mining world.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius