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Webster 1913 Edition


Costeaning

Cos′teanˊing

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Noun.
The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

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costeaning

costeaning

English

Noun

costeaning (plural costeanings)

  1. (mining) A process for discovering metallic lodes by sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, so as to cross all the veins between the two pits.