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mine shaft

mine shaft is the alternative form of mineshaft.

Meaning of mineshaft

Noun

mineshaft (plural mineshafts)

  1. A vertical hole through the strata to reach the mineral which is being mined.

Forms of mine shaft

pluralmine shafts

Questions about mine shaft

What is mine shaft the alternative form of?
Mine shaft is the alternative form of mineshaft.

Words near mine shaft in the dictionary

  1. mine ploughs
  2. mine plow
  3. mine plows
  4. mine roller
  5. mine rollers
  6. mine shaft
  7. mine shafts
  8. mine-clearing
  9. mineable
  10. Minean
  11. Mineans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mine shaft (page history and authors); mineshaft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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