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noun
A trench in solid rock intersected by pits which reveals mineral veins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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verb
To search for lodes by sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, so as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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History
Presumably from Cornish kodha (“to fall, happen”) + sten (“tin”).
