longwall

[ lawng-wawl, long- ]

adjectiveMining.

noting or pertaining to a means of extracting coal or other minerals in an underground mine from a continuous face, the roof before the face being supported at intervals by temporary or movable artificial supports.: Compare room-and-pillar.

noun

the continuous face so worked.

Origin of longwall

¹

First recorded in 1830–40; long¹ + wall

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How to use longwall in a sentence

The New College man he was going to live with is going down, and he had fixed up some rather jolly digs in longwall.
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A few days later Maurice had come along with news of rooms in longwall.
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