Adit vs Ait - What's the difference?
adit | ait |
A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine as contrasted to a shaft which is a vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.
* 2006 , Mike Hetman, IronMiners.com [http://www.ironminers.com/ironmines/old-mine-1.htm]:
* 2008 , Iain M. Banks, Matter , page 445:
An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
* R. Hodges (1649)
* 1833 , , Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,
* 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 1,
(Scotland) An oat.
As nouns the difference between adit and ait
is that adit is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine as contrasted to a shaft which is a vertical entry passage an adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes while ait is place, area.adit
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Old Mine is currently entered through an upper adit as the main is no longer accessible.
- The adit sloped downwards into the bowels of some long-fallen building, following a passage that had silted up when the city had first been buried.
References
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English
Noun
(wikipedia ait) (en noun)- The ait where the osiers grew.
- Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits .
- Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.
- (Burns)