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buntons|ˈbʌntənz|
[orig. in sing. bunting, a piece of squared timber, of obscure etym.
1633Gateshead Church Bks. in Heslop Northumb. Words (1892) s.v., It. pd for one bunting and two sparres to a yeat and the makeing it, 4s. 4d.]
Strong balks of timber placed crosswise in the shaft of a mine serving to divide it into compartments and to support the guides on which the cages run, etc. (Rarely sing.)
1839Ure Dict. Arts 971 In quadrant shafts the buntons cross each other towards the middle of the pit. Ibid. 986 The compartment intended for the upcast is made air-tight at top, by placing strong buntons or beams across it. 1860Eng. & For. Mining Gloss. (ed. 2) 51 Buntons, strong balks of timber. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 450/2 Pieces of timber parallel to the end-pieces (buntons or dividings) are fixed across the shaft, and serve to stay the wall-plates. 1888Greenwell Gloss. Coal Trade Northumb. & Durh. (ed. 3) 81 A cistern which stands on a strong oak bunton. 1967Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) ix. 6 Bunton, one of a series of horizontal beams set at intervals across a shaft to support rigid guides, cables and pipes and, in rectangular shafts, to act as struts. |