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Manway

Manway \Man"way`\, n. A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through.
--Raymond.

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manway

n. A hole or duct by which a human being may access a utility area for maintenance purposes.

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Usage examples of "manway".

He had gone to work in the mine and somebody dropped some drill steel down a manway when he was coming up the ladder.

In the narrow limits of the manway there was no chance of escape from falling drills--and small chance of accident, when it came to that.

Suddenly he saw the ladder of a manway, and beyond it the end of the drift.

Anyone he might meet down here would have the advantage of knowing the mine--he would know every manway, every cross-cut, raise, or winze.

On that manway Shevlin would be almost helpless if someone decided to do to him what they had done to the other investigator.