open-cut

[ oh-puhn-kuht ]

adjectiveMining.

noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.

Origin of open-cut

First recorded in 1880–85

Words Nearby open-cut

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How to use open-cut in a sentence

The open cut replaces completely the so-called Bergen Tunnel, which has already become a matter of history.
The Modern Railroad | Edward Hungerford
The bonnet instantly ducked under his arm, and a line of razor-like knuckles left an open cut under his eye.
Danger! and Other Stories | Arthur Conan Doyle
On this level line an open cut was made and the outlet pipe laid.
The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. | J. L. Campbell
He was really too weak to go far; and besides, that open cut did seem to be bleeding seriously.
The Boy Scouts on the Trail | Herbert Carter
Our first excursion will be to a locality where an open cut has been made for the purpose of carrying on quarrying operations.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899 | Various

British Dictionary definitions for open cut

open cut

noun

civil engineering an excavation made in the open rather than in a tunnel: See cut-and-cover

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