Definition of adit

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Adit (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel..

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Nevadite :: Nevadite (n.) A grantitoid variety of rhyolite, common in Nevada..
Conventionalism :: Conventionalism (n.) That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage..
Traditionarily :: Traditionarily (adv.) By tradition.
Ironbound :: Ironbound (a.) Rigid; unyielding; as, ironbound traditions..
Gaditanian :: Gaditanian (a.) Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain..
Tradition :: Tradition (v. t.) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Tetradite :: Tetradite (n.) A person in some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead..
Melancholy :: Melancholy (n.) Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
Traditional :: Traditional (a.) Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
Traditionally :: Traditionally (adv.) In a traditional manner.
Thurl :: Thurl (n.) A long adit in a coalpit.
Rabbinist :: Rabbinist (n.) One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions..
Puritan :: Puritan (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England..
Lore :: Lore (v. t.) That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore..
Traditional :: Traditional (a.) Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures..
Extradited :: Extradited (imp. & p. p.) of Extradit.
Traditionary :: Traditionary (a.) Traditional.
Sunniah :: Sunna (n.) A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.
Rabbinism :: Rabbinism (n.) The teachings and traditions of the rabbins.
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