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Sandpit :: Sandpit (n.) A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches..

Keyhole :: Keyhole (n.) A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them..

Dig :: Dig (v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore..

Hole :: Hole (n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure..

Excavation :: Excavation (n.) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.

Excavation :: Excavation (n.) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel..

Excavation :: Excavation (n.) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass..

Gobbing :: Gobbing (n.) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff.

Well :: Well (v. i.) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries..

Excavation :: Excavation (n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc..

Denudation :: Denudation (n.) The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water..

Mill :: Mill (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained..

Topsoiling :: Topsoiling (n.) The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.

Shield :: Shield (n.) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses..

Scoop :: Scoop (n.) To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation..

Earthwork :: Earthwork (n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc..

Stalled :: Stall (v. i.) The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level..

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