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Definition of Air shaft
1. Noun. A shaft for ventilation.
Definition of Air shaft
1. Noun. a vertical (or near vertical) shaft that supplies ventilation to a tunnel or other underground facility ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Shaft
Literary usage of Air shaft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1920)
"The air shaft is 12 ft. 2 in. by 22 ft. 10 in. and is divided into three ...
The counterweight for the air-shaft cage runs on wire-rope guides in the air ..."
2. Journal of Social Science: Containing the Proceedings of the American by American Social Science Association, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root (1874)
"Let a pipe six inches in diameter pass from the side near the bottom of the fresh
air shaft, behind the stove, to the flour, and thence horizontally through ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1863)
"For a similar reason, if a closed barrack has no other means of ventilation than
a foul air-shaft and a chimney flue, the fire-place will certainly supply ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"What is known in America aa the Rattan or Smead system of ventilation, successfully
applied in many schools there, employs 4 hot-air shaft to furnish, ..."
5. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"in deck and a vertical line ol дб-in flanged steel pipe (air shaft) was led ...
air shaft was long enough to keep lock always above ground-water le that, ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"The air shaft is 12 ft. 2 in. by 22 ft. 10 in. and is divided into three ...
The counterweight for the air-shaft cage runs on wire-rope guides in the air ..."
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