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CUNICULUS

Volume 17 · 73 words · 1810 Edition

See Lepus, Mammalia Index.

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