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(mining engineering)
Ore height available above a given working level.
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Let us turn our backs upon duty and abandon ourselves to the delights and advantages which beckon from every grove and call to us from every shining hill.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
It was a great treat to us to be turned out into the home paddock or the old orchard; the grass was so cool and soft to our feet, the air so sweet, and the freedom to do as we liked was so pleasant -- to gallop, to lie down, and roll over on our backs, or to nibble the sweet grass.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
When they take observations, they turn their backs to the north, the reverse position to that which they occupy when they study a terrestrial map.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
 
 
 
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