doghole
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noun (English)
1. (mining, slang) A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.Examples: "They know there are thousands of coal miners desperately in need of work, and they know the doghole operators cannot afford to pay these men union wages."; "Most miners insist they would rather rob a bank or go on welfare than work in a doghole."; "He drove his father to the non-union doghole on the side of the mountain ."slang
2. (mining, slang) A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.slang
3. (mining) An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.Examples: "The second doghole, driven at 385 feet to one of the pumping units, penetrated a water course, and within a few hours caved material had filled the shaft to 366 feet."; "Stope preparation includes the excavation of finger raises, sidelines, undercuts, and dogholes as well as the longholing and blasting of pillars formed by this work."; "The main adit, which yielded the only ore, and a 5-foot-long doghole are shown in figure 17."
verb (English)
1. (mining, slang) To work in a doghole mine, especially to manually dig up a vein.Examples: "Mostly, these activities are restricted to small tunneling, diggings, and dogholing from which the ore is extracted and sent to small cyanidation plants for gold recovery;"; "An' doghole that goddamn seam, too."; "He tried to think of ways to get Curtis to give up dogholing, and for a moment thought of asking Sally to go into Cheylan with him to look at trailers, but remembered all her talk of leaving."slang
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