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

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

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

Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep..

Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..

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..

Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

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..

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..

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.

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

Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..

Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.

Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater..

Poecile :: Poecile (n.) The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.

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

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.

Loft :: Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft..

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

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

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