Lexicographical Neighbors of Holings
Literary usage of Holings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (1857)
"A width of eighteen to twenty yards is taken away at first, (a), and continued
until it reaches the first holings or slits out of the board-gates on each ..."
2. Transactions by American Ethnological Society (1860)
"VII., which shows bords turned away e vei yards, and driven two yards wide, with
cross holings twenty yar thus leaving a solid pillar of coal sixteen by ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Ventilation being one of the serious problems in mining—especially coal mining —
it is generally necessary to make passageways or "holings" connecting the ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1818)
"What are called holings, or small gas-courses made into the main head-way, must
accompany the works as they ad- vance; and the dimensions of these apertures ..."
5. Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Society of Arts (1815)
"The cross darts i, i, i, i, show the holings at the lower part of the mine, made
into the bottom of the gas headway, and through which the carbonic acid gas ..."
6. Modern Practice in Mining by Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne (1914)
"... holings) will be made at stated intervals for the purpose of ventilation and
haulage, but the further apart they are—that is, the greater the length of ..."
7. A Treatise on the Coal Mines of Durham and Northumberland: With Information by J. H. H. Holmes (1816)
"... to which it has free access through the holings or walls, 1 2 3 4 : it then
passes through the holing 5, called the air-wall, into the boards (workings) ..."
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