"Adit" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In mining law. A lateral entrance or passage lnto a mine; tbe opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; a horizontal excavation ln and along' a lode. Electro-Magnetic M. & D. Co. v. Van Auken, 9 Colo. 204, 11 Pac. 80 ; Gray v. Truby, 6 Colo. 278
Admission; approach; access.
An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal
opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are
carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.
After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sense that any happiness that came my way might be the prelude to some grim cosmic joke.
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That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a …
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