Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mining, to endeavor to ascertain the position of a lode by sinking pits through the soil to the bed-rock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To search after lodes. See
costeaning .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb mining To search for
lodes .
Etymologies
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Cornish cothas, dropped + stean, tin.
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BRL has completed a successful trial quarrying and bauxite extraction costean programme of some 300 tonnes of bauxite for bulk sample for overseas customers.
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BRL has completed a successful trial quarrying and bauxite extraction costean programme of some 300 tonnes of bauxite for bulk sample for overseas customers.
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