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slipping [′slip·iŋ] (mining engineering) Enlarging an excavation by breaking one or more walls. 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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Under these we were obliged to crawl on our hands and feet, sliding along the oozy surface of the rocks, or slipping into the deep pools, and with scarce light enough to guide us. "And here is a bottle of ink," the grateful financier said, slipping it into the other's pocket; "it is all that we have. The soldiers who had heart to go slowly were con- tinually shaken in their resolves by a knowledge that comrades were slipping with speed back to the lines. |
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