Winze

At other times the men lose hold of the ladders -- ` fall away 'from them, as they express it -- or stumble into a winze, which is a small shaft connecting level with level, in which latter case death is almost certain to ensue, many of the winzes being sixty feet deep. ❋ Unknown (1859)

At length the gallery came to an end, though from it a small "winze," or passage, barely wide enough to crawl through, led upward at a sharp angle. ❋ Kirk Munroe (1890)

A water filled winze with log cribbing stands across from the adit within the stope. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The name 'Winzy' might suggest that the protagonist of this story is a comic character; but the Scottish word 'winze' means curse and is here used to emphasize the tragic curse of eternal life suffered by the Mortal Immortal. ❋ Unknown (2002)

She knew how the stones fell, how a slip-ping shelf of rock, an ill-guided pick, or a miner's spell might collapse the whole spindly arrangement of tunnel and winze and shortwall until the ground above them shuddered as the planet fell in on itself. ❋ Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- (1994)

He should enter the mine and follow the left drift until he came upon McIntyre in the winze. ❋ STEF ANN HOLM (1992)

Raising the flame to his smoke, he lit it, then flicked the match into the winze with a shrug. ❋ STEF ANN HOLM (1992)

Owing to the excellent showing of ore obtained on the 3,000 level by the Hale & Norcross Company, and to the continuation of the ore below that level (as shown by a winze sunk in the vein), the management determined to sink the shaft to the vertical depth of 3,200 ft. ❋ Various (N/A)

At this point they are connected by a drift, from which an exploring shaft or winze is sunk to a further depth of 666 feet, and from that again was put down a bore hole 49 feet in depth, making the total depth reached 3,562 feet. ❋ Various (N/A)

In some instances, one special winze is arranged for passing all filling from the surface to a level above the principal stoping operations; and it is then distributed along the levels into the winzes, and thus to the operating stopes, by belt-conveyors. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)

Moreover, it is easier to follow the ore in a rise than in a winze. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)

It thus all arrives at a single point, -- the winze, -- and must be drawn from a single ore-pass into the level. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)

In such cases ventilation can be managed without an opening above, by so directing the current of air that it will rise through a winze from the level below, flow along the stope and into the level again at the further end of the stope through another winze. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)

A stope 800 to 1000 feet long can be operated with a winze at either end and with levels 200 or 220 feet apart. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)

A winze is sunk underhand, while a rise is put up overhand. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)

Where we had small mines, often served with a horse winze or a very simple engine, we have to face the problem of thousands of tons of ore produced in a single day. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Tunnel and shaft and winze, he cursed it; sheave and cross-cut; pulley and belt; and blast and fall-rope under the hoist. ❋ Unknown (1907)