2. Noun. (meteorology) Rapid rising of smoke clouds due to heat generated by burning munitions and/or existing convection currents. ¹
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Definition of Pillaring
1. pillar [v] - See also: pillar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pillaring
Literary usage of Pillaring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colliery Working and Management: Comprising the Duties of a Colliery Manager by Harrison Francis Bulman, Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne (1906)
"The pillaring is usually kept 4 feet back from the face. If, when the hewer
commences his work in the morning, he finds that the roof is only moderately ..."
2. Transactions by Ohio State Dental Society, American Ethnological Society, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (1856)
"If to the above items be added the cost of pillaring in the face, making the
twin-ways, waggon-ways, and air-ways, and pillaring on the sides of these, ..."
3. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"The pillaring in way of the hatchways may be arranged in four distinct ways. ...
The second method of arranging the pillaring is shown in Fig. ..."
4. The Mining Magazine (1857)
"Which comprises maintaining roads and airways, upon which, until they become
settled, there is a great deal of heaving and lowering way, pillaring up stone ..."
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