Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A supporting timber or other prop in a mine.
- noun A platform braced against the sides of a working area in a mine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, a heavy timber secured in an excavation, and especially in the stopes.
- noun A luncheon; also, a large piece of bread, cheese, or other eatable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A
framework oftimber covered withboards to supportrubbish or to protectminers from fallingstones .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"stull" system can, in inclined deposits, be further strengthened by building waste pillars against them, in which case the arrangement merges into the system of artificial pillars.
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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a small timber gang was struggling to hoist a huge log that they called a "stull" into position.
The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines Kirk Munroe 1890
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it's wonderful. everywhere. so white. matociquala 2008
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When placing the concrete, the stull (if made of wood) is to be remove because the concrete mix assumes the bracing function (pressure) (See Fig. 1 and Fig. 2).
3. General Construction of Formwork Peter Wehrmann 1993
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A stull-batten is to be nailed on the formwork immediately above the ties to ensure that the projected beam width is kept when tieing the formwork.
4. Types of Formwork Peter Wehrmann 1993
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Where certain differences stull exist between the parties, it will be submitted to Government as such.
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Shoveling all this stull onto Central Courts had been all right when Mallorysport had had a population of less than five thousand and nothing else on the planet had had more than five hundred, but that time was ten years past.
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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Cloud Computing: Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft Resources - RSS 2010
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