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stulm

stulm noun: a shaft, conduit, adit, or gallery to drain a mine.

Noun

stulm (plural stulms)

  1. A shaft, conduit, adit, or gallery to drain a mine.
    • … they have to advance the lower stulm on each side of the tunnel … the advancement of the stulm, … it must be finished, including the graveling.1881, United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Commercial Relations of the United States: Reports from the Consuls of the United States on the Commerce, Manufactures, Etc., of Their Consular...
    • … an upper chamber, a stulm, a lower chamber in open communication with the lower end of the head shaft, and arranged at substantially the level of the stulm, and a downwardly extending sill divinding the lower end of the shaft from the stulm so that the lower chamber is at normal pressure and the...1932, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume 414, Digitized edition, U.S. Government Patent Office, published 2008, page 709

Forms of stulm

pluralstulms

Origin of stulm

From German Stollen (“tunnel”).

Questions about stulm

What does stulm mean?
Stulm means a shaft, conduit, adit, or gallery to drain a mine.
What part of speech is stulm?
Stulm is a noun.
What is the plural of stulm?
The plural of stulm is stulms.

Words near stulm in the dictionary

  1. stukkies
  2. stull
  3. Stuller
  4. Stullers
  5. stulls
  6. stulm
  7. stulms
  8. stulp
  9. Stulpicani
  10. stulps
  11. stult

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