Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mining & Civil Eng.) Designating a method of shaft excavation by drifting to a point below, and then raising instead of sinking.
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Examples
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VIDEO: The bodies are piling up-over 1,800 killings so far this year alone.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Mexico's War: US contractors teaching torture techniques to Mexican Police. 2008
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Media critic Rory O 'Conner explained in a Bill Moyers feature just how listeners are, as Limbaugh might put it, stirred up-over and over again:
CounterPunch 2010
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; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'VIDEO: The bodies are piling up-over 1,800 killings so far this year alone.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Mexico's War: US contractors teaching torture techniques to Mexican Police. 2008
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