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Camonflet :: Camonflet (n.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners..

Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

Jube :: "Jube (n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read..

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc..

Subworker :: Subway (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted..

Sill :: Sill (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.

Loggia :: Loggia (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room..

Baluster :: Baluster (n.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade..

Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

Atrium :: Atrium (n.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

Eking :: Eking (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.

Arcade :: Arcade (n.) A long, arched building or gallery..

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Chase :: Chase (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point..

Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..

Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal..

Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.

Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.

Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..

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