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upcast shaft
Upcast Up"cast`, n. 1. (Bowling) A cast; a throw. --Shak. 2. (Mining.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft. 3. An upset, as from a carriage. [Scot.] 4. A taunt; a reproach. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.

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- coal tubs are wooden or iron vessels to carry coal. Upcast, upcast shaft The upcast is the shaft by which the spent air is expelled after ventilating...
- effect. A downcast shaft allowed air into the mine. At the foot of the upcast shaft a furnace was kept continuously burning. The shaft (commonly several...
- use as the downcast and drawing shafts. The upcast shaft was close to the Dearne and Dove Canal and the downcast shafts were adjacent to the railway. The...
- diameter used as the upcast for numbers 1, 2 and 3. Numbers 2 and 5 shafts were close to each other, within 30 yards (27 m). Number 3 shaft was 680 yards (620 m)...
- Institute. This shaft was to act as the upcast for the Institute Pit and was named the Laura, after Mr Charles J. Homer's daughter. Both shafts were completed...
- the downcast shaft by which air entered the underground, the Sainte-Marie shaft, with its powerful ventilators, serving as the upcast shaft. In 1944, the...
- International Brigade and fought in the Spanish Civil War. Through the Upcast Shaft (1920) The P****ing of Guto (1927) Back in the Return (1933) The Simple...
- extracted in 1896. The colliery's two shafts were both 1,950 feet (590 m) deep, the downcast Lancaster and the upcast York. Development of the pit coincided...
- Snaefell Mine consisted of a single working shaft mine, and in addition there was a wooden upcast shaft which followed the slope of Snaefell Mountain...
- headings in turn before being ejected by a furnace at the foot of an upcast shaft. Clearly this meant that any firedamp (usually methane) released by the...