Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
goaf .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Mining) Old workings. See
goaf .
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- noun Plural form of
goaf .
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Examples
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But it is no easy matter to ventilate near a hundred miles of levels, inclines, stalls, and goaves in a fiery mine.
The Coal Question~ Of the Cost of Coal Mining William Stanley Jevons 1865
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