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noun
A partition in a coal mine, made from wood or from canvas sheeting coated in tar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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noun
A wooden structure used for attack or defence, such as an archery tower, or a penthouse built over the entry to a castle for archers to shoot from.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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verb
To divide into partitions of this kind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: partition, divider
verb
supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: supply, provide, render, furnish
History
Inherited from Middle English bretage, bretace, from Old French bretesce, bretesche, breteske, from Late Latin brittisca.
