costeaning

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A process for discovering metallic lodes by sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, so as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

Word forms

costeaning costeanings

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