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Upcast

noun
1.
Air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine.





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"Upcast" Quotes from Famous Books



... Appalachian chain. (H.D. Rogers Geology of Pennsylvania page 897.) An hypothesis which attributes such a change of position to a succession of movements, is far preferable to any theory which assumes each fault to have been accomplished by a single upcast or downthrow of several thousand feet. For we know that there are operations now in progress, at great depths in the interior of the earth, by which both large and small tracts of ground are made to rise above and sink below their former level, some slowly and insensibly, ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... voice sounded unemotional as ever. But it seemed to Paul Harley that his face, dimly illuminated by the upcast light from the lamp upon the coffee table, had ...
— Fire-Tongue • Sax Rohmer
... is Melicent upcast Under a heathen castle at the last: And how a wicked lord of proud degree, Demetrios, dwelleth in this country, Where humbled under him are all mankind: How to this wretched woman he hath mind, ...
— Domnei • James Branch Cabell et al


Words linked to "Upcast" :   airway, air duct, air passage


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