putting roadn.Coal Miningrare a road or track along which barrows of coal are propelled in a mine (see sense 8).
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1887 P. McNeillBlawearie 21 [The pit] has been stopped for some years, not because the ‘putting roads’ had become too far, or too heavy for the putters;..but because the seam had become utterly flooded with water.