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Excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
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mineshaft
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ That did not prevent her from being thrown down a mineshaft to her death in 1918.
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n. excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine