long wayn.
/ˈlɒŋ weɪ/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋ ˌweɪ/, /ˈlɑŋ ˌweɪ/ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > long
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1627 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 293 They took the English at an advantage, when they were engaged in a narrow longway, going towards the bridge of the Isle de l'Oye.
2. Coal Mining. The longwall method of mining. Cf. long-wall n. and adj. at long adj.1 and n.1 Compounds 4a. Now historical.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > for coal > types of
footrill1686
post and stall1793
long way1795
stall-work1811
long-wall1820
pitchwork1858
stoop-and-room1881
stonework1883
strait work1883
stumping1883
1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIV. 622 In this coal work, the method called the long way, is now introduced; that is, no part of the coal is left for pillars, but the whole taken out, which saves a great part of the coal.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 978 The fourth system of working coal, is called the long way, the long wall, and the Shropshire method.
1870 G. C. Greenwell Pract. Treat. Mine Engin. (ed. 2) vi. 203 A seam of coal containing a band of stone is well adapted for working by the long way.
1932 J. U. Nef Rise Brit. Coal Industry I. iv. i. 364 The so-called ‘long way’ or ‘long wall’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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