COSTEANING

Definition: COSTEANING

COSTEANING

Noun

1. The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: COSTEANING

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. The removal of soil and subsoil by a rushing of water, to expose rock formations in prospecting for reefs or lodes b. Proving an ore deposit or vein by trenching across its outcrop at approx. right angles c. Tracing a lode by pits sunk through overburden to underlying roc. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Rhyming with "COSTEANING"

Words rhyming with "COSTEANING" (pronounced 'Cos"tean`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Findfaulting, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, good-looking, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, heartrending, high-sounding, Home-coming, Home-dwelling. (additional references)

Anagrams: COSTEANING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: negations.
	-2 letters: aconites, actinons, agnostic, ancients, anginose, antigens, canniest, canoeing, canoeist, canonise, canonist, coagents, coasting, coatings, cognates, coinages, contains, enacting, enations, encasing, escoting, gentians, insectan, instance, negation, negatons, sanction, scanting, scenting, sonantic, sonatine, sonicate, tonnages.
	-3 letters: acetins, acinose, aconite, actings, actinon, actions, agonies, agonise, agonist, ancient, ancones, anoints, anteing, antigen, antings, atonics, atonies.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: ancestoring.
	+2 letters: centimorgans, compensating, congelations, consecrating, isoantigenic, nonstrategic.
	+3 letters: cogenerations, conglutinates, congregations, constellating, consternating, miscegenation, octogenarians, undercoatings.
	+4 letters: congenialities, conservatizing, contagiousness, containerising, cotransferring, countershading, counterstating, decompensating, deconsecrating, miscegenations, reconsecrating, xenodiagnostic.
	+5 letters: anticarcinogens, centrifugations, conceptualising, conglomerations, consanguinities, countershadings, counterstaining, encephalitogens, gentrifications, miscegenational, reconsolidating.
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