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Definition of Overcasts
1. overcast [v] - See also: overcast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcasts
Literary usage of Overcasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Coal Mining in Arkansas by Alvin Arthur Steel (1910)
"The present law requires the overcasts, so doors can not be substituted. Moreover,
the cost of the overcasts is soon repaid by the saving in wages of ..."
2. A Manual of Mining: Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at by Magnus Colbj/orn Ihlseng (1892)
"Doors ought to be dispensed with entirely : it is better to provide overcasts.
They are leaky, and, if there is no trapper, offer opportunities for ..."
3. Mining: An Elementary Treatise on the Getting of Minerals by Arnold Lupton (1904)
"VENTILATION : DOORS, overcasts, BRATTICE, PIPES, FURNACES, FANS : THEORY. BOTH by
law and by circumstance, it is necessary to produce sufficient ventilation ..."
4. A Manual of Mining. Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at by Magnus Colbjørn Ihlseng (1898)
"Doors, regulators, etc.; safety doors, and extras, to be dropped after explosion ;
air-crossings, overcasts, ..."
5. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"overcasts (overthrows or bridges) carry one air current across .-. ... overcasts are
wood, or in important places of brick or reinforced concrete. ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"As every one knows who has investigated explosion disasters, overcasts are ...
Therefore, where natural overcasts cannot be made which will provide a good ..."
7. Elements of Mining by George Joseph Young (1916)
"Construction of overcasts.—overcasts are constructed of timber, timber and steel,
brick, monolithic concrete, cement blocks, steel and concrete ..."
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