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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. Excavating a shaft downwards, usually from the surface, to the workable coal or ore. High sinking rates are possible by (1) mechanical mucking, (2) increased winding capacity, (3) improved concrete supply and placing, (4) improved surface layout, and (5) improved methods of blasting. (references) |
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Crosswords: SHAFT SINKING |
| Specialty definitions using "SHAFT SINKING": air-operated winch ♦ back holes, bench cut, bucket pump ♦ centering of shaft, coffering, Cryderman loader ♦ Dehottay process ♦ Foraky freezing process, foreshaft sinking ♦ Gebhardt survey instrument ♦ Haase system, Honigmann process, hoppit ♦ Koch freezing process ♦ Larsen's pile ♦ outer shots ♦ pneumatic shaft sinking, pneumatic water barre, Poetsch process, precementation process, pyramid cut ♦ refrigeration plant, relieving cut, Rodio-Dehottay process ♦ shot firing in rounds, sinker drill, sinking and walling scaffold, sinking in rock, sinking platform, sinking stage, skeleton tubbing, stage plumbing, sumpman ♦ trimmer shots, trimmers, trimming shots. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shaft sinking | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "SHAFT SINKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | longueurs de cycle dans le creusement de galeries et de puits (lengths of pull in roadway heading and shaft sinking). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Abschlaglaengen im Streckenvortrieb und im Schachtbau (lengths of pull in roadway heading and shaft sinking). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aftshay inkingsay cuele vertical (shaft drivage, sinking). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-h-i-i-k-n-n-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: antikings, shaftings, thinkings. | |
-4 letters: antiking, fainting, faintish, faithing, fastings, fishings, infights, insights, kingfish, sainting, shafting, shanking, shifting, siftings, skatings, staining, stashing, stinking, thanking, thinking. | |
-5 letters: antings, askings, fashing, fasting, finings, finking, fishing, fisting, gaskins, hafting, hanking, hanting, hasting, hinting, hissing, histing, infants, infight, insight, isatins, kainits, kissing, kithing, knifing, knights, saining, sashing, shaking. | |
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