shaft house
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shaft house
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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The word that men had been rescued passed out of the shaft house before they could get out of the cage, and a great shout went up.
From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen
Figure 1 shows an overshot waterwheel driving through Stangenkunsten pumps in three separate shafts, each covered by the typical conical shaft house.
From Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later by Multhauf, Robert P.
He looked through a crack and saw the caved-in shaft house and the straggling waste heap of a worked-out mine.
From The Short Line War by Merwin-Webster
The tragedy of the shaft house and the imprisonment of Grant Adams had staged for the day all over the nation in the first pages of the newspapers an interesting drama.
From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen
I sorrow with those families whose boys perished by the bomb in shaft house No. 7.
From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen
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