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slant [slant] (mining engineering) Any short, inclined crosscut connecting the entry with its air course to facilitate the hauling of coal. Also known as shoofly. A heading driven diagonally between the dip and the strike of a coal seam. Also known as run. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Then he chuckled gleefully as they followed him silently down the steep slant. One side and one end of it come about as straight up out of the sea as the side of a house, the other end is irregular and the other side is a steep slant which an army would find very difficult to climb. He lifted his eyes to the sky, and then let his glassy stare descend to meet the horizon that, tilting up to an angle of forty degrees, seemed to hang on a slant for a while and settled down slowly. |
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