Synonyms for air shaft


Grammar : Noun


Définition of air shaft

  • noun ventilating shaft
Example sentences :
  • "I wish we could set the air shaft working," suggested Sandy.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Beaver Patrol » by V. T. Sherman
  • One way is to keep a large fire at the bottom of the air shaft.
  • Extract from : « Diggers in the Earth » by Eva March Tappan
  • What if it were an air shaft, running to the very bottom, a hundred feet below?
  • Extract from : « The Rope of Gold » by Roy J. Snell
  • The fans will be blowing that fire down this air shaft in a few minutes.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of a Fool » by William Allen White
  • Scarcely could a man fall in such a way in an air shaft and live.
  • Extract from : « The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
  • If two galleries in a mine are to be connected by an air shaft, how shall it be planned so as to save labor?
  • Extract from : « The Teaching of Geometry » by David Eugene Smith
  • There was a scramble for the buckets, but no one offered to man the windlass and hoist them up the air shaft.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of a Fool » by William Allen White
  • Grant looked up the air shaft and saw the fire–little flickering flames lighting up the shaft near the second level.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of a Fool » by William Allen White
  • They reached the passage in a cloud of smoke, but it was going up the air shaft and did not fill the passage.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of a Fool » by William Allen White
  • I'll tell you what, Em—you call down the air shaft to Cass, and tell him to send Henny up to make us a nice little coal fire here.
  • Extract from : « The Story Of Julia Page » by Kathleen Norris

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