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shortwall

[ shawrt-wawl ]

adjective

, Mining.
  1. pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shortwall1

First recorded in 1910–15; short + wall

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