in zoology. See LEPUS.

mining, a term used by authors in distinction from puteus, to express the several sorts of passages and cuts in these subterranean works. The cuniculi are those direct passages in mines where they walk horizontally; but the putei are the perpendicular cuts or defences. The miners in Germany call these by the name flotten, and schacht; the first word expressing the horizontal, and the second the perpendicular cuts.