jenkin

See also: Jenkin

English

Noun

jenkin (plural jenkins)

  1. (mining) A narrow excavation driven through a pillar of coal.
    • 1898, Herbert William Hughes, A Text-book of Coal-mining, page 154:
      A jenkin is then carried up the pillar alongside the old bords […]
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