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sub-level

American  
[suhb-lev-uhl] / ˈsʌbˌlɛv əl /

noun

Mining.
  1. a drift, dug through ore, into which overlying material, especially from an upper layer of ore, is caved.


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This sub-level is more than a place; it's a mental state.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2012

If the latter found it necessary to raise the cage before that he was to ring a certain signal on the gong, each level and sub-level being provided with one.

From The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by Mears, James R.

We found a fuse on the first sub-level near the shaft, but of course that doesn't prove anything.

From The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by Mears, James R.

He left the cage at the sub-level just above the last level.

From The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by Mears, James R.

THE "MISSED HOLE" ON the seventeenth sub-level of the Cousin Jack Mine the Spooner contract gang was working at high pressure.

From The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by Mears, James R.

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