from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A supporting timber or other prop in a mine.
noun A platform braced against the sides of a working area in a mine.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun In mining, a heavy timber secured in an excavation, and especially in the stopes.
noun A luncheon; also, a large piece of bread, cheese, or other eatable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun Prov. Eng. A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
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noun UK, dialect A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Probably from German Stollen, from Middle High German stolle, prop, support, from Old High German stollo; see stel- in Indo-European roots.]
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"stull" system can, in inclined deposits, be further strengthened by building waste pillars against them, in which case the arrangement merges into the system of artificial pillars.
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When placing the concrete, the stull (if made of wood) is to be remove because the concrete mix assumes the bracing function (pressure) (See Fig. 1 and Fig. 2).
Shoveling all this stull onto Central Courts had been all right when Mallorysport had had a population of less than five thousand and nothing else on the planet had had more than five hundred, but that time was ten years past.
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