Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milit., a small trough extending from the chamber of a mine to the extremity of a gallery, to protect from dampness a saucisson or tube filled with powder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mining) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
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- noun mining A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the
gallery , or place where theslow match is applied.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Quoniam caliditate conjuncta est siccitas quae malum auget.
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Lapis hic gestatus aut ebibitus prudentiam auget, nocturnos timores pellit; insanos hac sanavi, et quum lapidem abjecerint, erupit iterum stultitia.
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Nihil magis auget, ac assidua studia, et profundae cogitationes.
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Hæ vectantur in singulis curribus, et singularum ad hoc maximis curribus cum custodia cuiuscunque crucis, decem mille equitum, et centum mille peditum, nec tamen hic numerus auget vel minuit principalem exercitum Paganorum.
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H� vectantur in singulis curribus, et singularum ad hoc maximis curribus cum custodia cuiuscunque crucis, decem mille equitum, et centum mille peditum, nec tamen hic numerus auget vel minuit principalem exercitum Paganorum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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HOC uide circum supraque quod complexu continet terram solisque exortu capessit candorem, occasu nigret, id quod nostri caelum memorant, Grai perhibent aethera: quidquid est hoc, omnia animat format alit auget creat sepelit recipitque in sese omnia, omniumque idem est pater, 5 indidemque eadem aeque oriuntur de integro atque eodem occidunt.
Genitabile Caelum 1912
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Thus Tzwivel (1507, f. 2) says: "Nota autem circularis .o. per se sumpta nihil vsus habet. alijs tamen adiuncta earum significantiam et auget et ordinem permutat quantum quo ponit ordinem. vt adiuncta note binarij hoc modo 20 facit eam significare bis decem etc."
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902
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Assuevit populus, ut una utantur Sacramento, si qui sunt idonei, id quoque auget reverentiam ac religionem publicarum ceremoniarum.
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On the other hand, "præputium in coitu voluptatem (of the woman) auget, unde femina præputiatis concubitum malunt quam cum Turcis ac Judæis" says Dimerbroeck
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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It was a saying of one of the greatest of the rabbin, Qui non auget scientiam, amittit de ea -- If our stock of knowledge by not increasing, it is wasting; and those that would increase in learning must study the scriptures; these perfect the man of God.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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