The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thurst
Thurst \Thurst\, n. (Coal Mining)
The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of
the pillars and stalls.
--Raymond.
Wiktionary
thurst
n. (context mining English) The ruins of the fallen roof in a coal mine, resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.
Usage examples of "thurst".
Yet parcht with scalding thurst and hunger fierce, Though to delude them sent, could not abstain, But on they rould in heaps, and up the Trees Climbing, sat thicker then the snakie locks That curld MEGAERA: greedily they pluck'd The Frutage fair to sight, like that which grew Neer that bituminous Lake where SODOM flam'd.