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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From French, diminutive of auge (“trough”), from Latin alveus (“hollow”), from alvus (“belly”).
