shaft house
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shaft house
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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I sorrow with those families whose boys perished by the bomb in shaft house No. 7.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
The policemen formed a line into the door of the shaft house.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
Grant and Fenn had run less than fifteen hundred feet–Dick lived a mile from the shaft house.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
The funeral of the young men killed in the shaft house brought a day of deepening emotion to Harvey.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
This showed all the mining processes and every detail of shaft house, ore dumps, cars, tracks, steam shovels, telegraph lines, etc., in and about the mines.
From Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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