BETA
Examples ofdowncast shaft
Dictionary> Examples ofdowncast shaft
downcast shaftisn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help!
Add a definition
I remember an instance when we could not work underground in adowncastshaftadjacent to a spoil heap.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The one is an upcast shaft, and the other is adowncastshaft, and they did start, some 10 or 12 years ago, to sink a third shaft.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The men endeavoured to escape by charging along this road, and they had no knowledge that by going towards thedowncastshaftthey were diminishing their chance of escaping.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Thedowncastshaftbeing 418 yd deep and the up-cast 414 yd yards.
From
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The colliery'sdowncastshaftwas 2,058 feet deep and its workings extended over a mile to the south and about 1,300 yards to the north of the shaft.
FromThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.