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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.
slant
A sewer pipe which connects a house sewer to a common sewer.
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Then he chuckled gleefully as they followed him silently down the steep slant.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
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.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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.
Typhoon by Conrad, Joseph View in context
 
 
 
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