STRING SURVEY

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. A rough method of transferring points from upper to lower levels in very narrow steep workings by suspending strings from point to point and measuring offsets. The excavation dimensions may be similarly obtained. See also:plumbing b. The use of stretched strings in awkward underground workings to provide survey lines and a basis for offsets. In the lost-thread method of survey, a string or thread is paid out over a measuring device as a traverse lineis walked. (references)
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Anagrams: STRING SURVEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-r-r-s-s-t-u-v-y"
	-2 letters: surveyings.
	-3 letters: restrings, russeting, stringers, surveying, synergist, vesturing.
	-4 letters: grunters, insurers, registry, restring, restrung, retrying, revuists, serrying, servings, stingers, stringer, strivers, stuivers, syringes, trigness, trussing, venturis, vestings.
	-5 letters: estrins, grivets, grunter, gunites, gurnets, gurneys, gurries, gustier, gutsier, ingests, ingress, inserts, insurer, insures, inverts, invests, nursers, nursery, nutsier, resigns, resting, returns, retying, reusing, revuist, ringers.
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