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- Excavation - n. - The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
- Excavation - n. - A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
- Excavation - n. - An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- Excavation - n. - The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- Denudation - n. - The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
- Mill - n. - An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- Shaft - n. - A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc.
- Gobbing - n. - The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff.
- Keyhole - n. - A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them.
- Sandpit - n. - A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.
- Hole - n. - An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
- Grave - n. - An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
- Shield - n. - A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
- Topsoiling - n. - The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.
- Cutting - n. - Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.
- Trench - v. t. - An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.
- Well - v. i. - A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- Mine - v. i. - A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.
- Stall - v. i. - The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.