Mining and Shaft

Mining

Mining noun - The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth.
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Synonyms for Mining

Shaft and mining are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shaft" instead a noun "Mining".

Nearby Words: mine, mined, miner

Shaft

Shaft noun - A narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object.
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Synonyms for Shaft

Mining and shaft are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mining" instead a noun "Shaft".

Nearby Word: shafting

Both words in one sentence

  • Blog / Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG If I ever trick the DM into telling us the only way to make money mining is to work the shaft, all my characters die.
  • Gambit Roulette The allied nations crush his armies, attack his mining spider, and in the end, Vlad and Kommandt Ubel end up trapped in a mine shaft.
  • Film / My Bloody Valentine Peek-A-Boo Corpse: Mabel's charred body popping out a clothes dryer, Happy's body coming down with a bunch of mining uniforms, and Howard's body flying down a shaft when he's hung.
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