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damp sheet

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damp sheet [¦damp ¦shēt]
(mining engineering)
A curtain used in a mine to direct airflow, thus preventing gas accumulation.


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They would often hang damp sheets over the screens in an attempt to cool the air.
If waiting for an ambulance cool the patient by loosening clothes, sprinkling them with cold water or wrapping them in a damp sheet.
This will mean an end to horrid encounters with cockroaches, lice and other creepy-crawlies that have been regular bedfellows between the damp sheets, and were responsible for shaming Bath as the second worst racecourse - after Carlisle - for stable staff in Hayley Brough's regularly quoted survey in the Racing Post ten weeks ago.
 
 
 
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