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adit |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Adit \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: adit n : a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine
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