BENCH CUT

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. In vertical shaft sinking, blasting of drill holes so as to keep one end of a rectangular opening deep (leading), thus facilitating drainage and removal of blasted rock b. Benches in tunnel driving are often drilled from the top with jackhammers. The vertical shotholes are generally spaced 4 ft (1.2 m) apart in both directions, fired by electric delay detonators, one row at a time. When bench shotholes are drilled horizontally with the drifter drills mounted on a bar, the charges are fired in rotation, starting from the upper center. In some cases, a bench may be drilled both vertically and horizontally, particularly where the benches are exceptionally high or when the headroom above the bench is inadequate for handling drill steels long enough to bottom the shotholes to grade. The lifters are drilled by machines mounted on a bar across the bottom of the tunnel, in which case the upper vertical holes will all be fired before the horizontal charge. (references)
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Anagrams: BENCH CUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-c-e-h-n-t-u"
	-3 letters: bench, bunch, butch, centu, chute, cutch, tench, teuch.
	-4 letters: bent, beth, bhut, bunt, bute, cent, chub, cube, cute, etch, hent, hunt, then, tube, tune, unbe.
	-5 letters: ben, bet, bun, but, cub, cue, cut, ecu, eth, hen, het, hub, hue, hun, hut, neb, net, nth, nub, nut, ten, the, tub, tun.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-c-e-h-n-t-u"
	+3 letters: uncatchable.
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