Definition of Longwall

1. a long working face in a coalmine [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Longwall

longtail boats
longtail weasel
longtailed
longtails
longterm
longtime
longtime(a)
longtimer
longtimers
longueur
longueurs
longulite
longulites
longus capitis
longus colli muscle
longwall (current term)
longwalls
longward
longwave
longways
longways dance
longwinded
longwindedly
longwindedness
longwise
longwool
longwools
longyi
lonicera
loniceras

Literary usage of Longwall

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Coal Mining in Arkansas by Alvin Arthur Steel (1910)
"longwall mining. It is believed that in the Spadra field and prospective Prairie View field, all new mines should be operated upon the longwall system, ..."

2. Engineering Geology Applied to the Design and Operation of Underground Coal by C. Richard Dunrud (2000)
"High-face longwall panels in [former] Yugoslavia were begun in 1979 in the ... Since the advent of modern, high capacity longwall mining machine powered ..."

3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"SYSTEMS OF longwall. RELATIVE ADVANTAGES OF SYSTEMS. 1741. longwall, like the pillar methods, has many variations; it may, however, be divided into two ..."

4. Mining Methods in Europe: Written After a Visit to Many of the Metal and by Lucius W. Mayer (1909)
"longwall METHODS OF MINING FLAT SEAMS Advantages of the System not Appreciated in the United States; longwall used chiefly in Coal Mining, though it has ..."

5. Mining Methods in Europe: Written After a Visit to Many of the Metal and by Lucius W. Mayer (1909)
"longwall METHODS OF MINING FLAT SEAMS Advantages of the System not Appreciated in the United States; longwall used chiefly in Coal Mining, though it has ..."

6. Mining Without Timber by Robert Bruce Brinsmade (1911)
"The longwall system extracts all the coal in the first operation along a long ... If advancing, the attack of the longwall or the robbing of the pillar ..."

7. Index of Mining Engineering Literature: Comprising an Index of Mining by Walter Richard Crane (1912)
"longwall Mining ON THE WORKING OF THIN SEAMS OF COAL, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON ... I. See also longwall MINING, first volume of INDEX, and COST OF COAL MINING. ..."

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