mineshaft

Fetched 2026-10-26 (cache).

Synonyms: mine shaft, lineshaft, minecraft, windshaft, mineshafts, line shaft, main shaft

Antonyms: mine shaft, lineshaft, minecraft, windshaft, mineshafts, line shaft, main shaft

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

1. A [[vertical]] [[hole]] through the [[strata]] to reach the [[mineral]] which is being [[mine]]d.

Source: Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wiktionary dump) · cached copy, not a rewrite.