1869 i. 8 The average thickness of vein may be considered as about 16 feet, and the length, horizontally, of the pay shoot is not over 450 or 500 feet.
1998 (Nexis) 18 Sept. 86 The prospect of following ‘pay shoots’ into the depths was always enticing and Rand Mines was already assessing data from its deep-level mines in the Fifties.