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Adit

Adit Meaning & Definition
Adit Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Adit?

[n] a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine

Synonyms | Synonyms for Adit:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Adit: access | admission | admittance | air lock | approach | channel | conduit | corridor | course | ditch | duct | egress | entrance | entranceway | entree | entry | entryway | exit | gangplank | gangway | hall | in | ingress | inlet | intake | means of access | opening | passage | passageway | trench | trough | troughing | troughway | tunnel | vestibule | way | way in

See Also | mine | passage

Adit In Webster's Dictionary

\Ad"it\, n. [L. aditus, fr. adire, ?aitum, to go to; ad + ire to go.] 1. An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also {drift} and {tunnel}. 2. Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. --Tennyson.

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