Adit

Quick meaning: Adit is a noun meaning (mining) A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage, used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.

Meaning

(mining) A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage, used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.

Example Sentences

The Old Mine is currently entered through an upper adit as the main is no longer accessible.

The adit sloped downwards into the bowels of some long-fallen building, following a passage that had silted up when the city had first been buried.

It consisted of an opening in the forest which clothed the hillside with the black mouth of an adit in the midst of it, and a few big mounds of debris, beside which stood a rude log shanty.

What all these passages are, of course I cannot say, but we thought that they must be the ancient workings of a mine, of which the various shafts and adits travelled hither and thither as the ore led them.

Word Forms

• adits

Synonyms for adit

Depending on context, synonyms include tunnel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stulm, entrance, hade, downwell, downtake, lade.

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