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Definition of Headways
1. headway [n] - See also: headway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headways
Literary usage of Headways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Coal Mining Described and Illustrated by Thomas H. Walton (1885)
"The headways go in the direction of the cleavage, and the coal coming from them
... In our Plate II. we have shown three pairs of main headways to be in ..."
2. Elementary and Practical Treatise on Subterraneous Surveying, and the by Thomas Fenwick (1861)
"Take the bearing and distance of the headways HI (by fixing the instrument at
the mark at B), which suppose N 2° W 3 chains: At 80 links is a bord 12 to the ..."
3. Colliery Working and Management: Comprising the Duties of a Colliery Manager by Harrison Francis Bulman, Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne (1906)
"Openings are left through the pack- wall over 60 or 70 yards, as the place
proceeds, for the passage of FIG. in,—DRAWING OF л FLAT WITH headways ..."
4. Annual Report on the Mines by Nova Scotia Public Works and Mines Dept (1905)
"Deeps, levels and headways in this mine were advanced during the year as follows
... 2 headways off No. 4 south levels 740" " " 1800ft- Pillars are being ..."
5. Transactions by American Ethnological Society (1859)
"1) has reached the barrier; and ^ the roof being of such a nature that the headways
courses do not fall, after the timber is taken out, the working away of ..."
6. The Mining Engineer (1908)
"The positions of the headways, however, showed that the gas in this ... The left
and central headways had probed the seam in advance of the stenton, ..."
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