bulls

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When the cut above these stulls is taken out, they are pulled up and are used again.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Hoover, Herbert

There are three principal systems of timber support to excavations,—by stulls, square-sets, and cribs.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Hoover, Herbert

There were stulls and mill-stakes and laggs to cut and to be taken into the shaft.

From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley

Every night, every shift, the swelling ground moved in, breaking stulls and square-sets like tooth-picks; and now with solid steel and quick-setting concrete they were fighting for the life of the mine.

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Coolidge, Dane