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brattice

VERB
  1. supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines
NOUN
  1. a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine

How To Use brattice In A Sentence

  • Tests were also carried out on the use of scoop brattices to ventilate headings.
  • As soon as he felt they should be sufficiently distant, he crept hastily up the steps and flung himself through the embrasure, to flatten himself on the floor of the brattice under a merlon. A River So Long
  • In the corner between them, a great coiling growth, blackened now in its winter hibernation, stripped of leaves, clambered as high as the battlements where the brattice began. A River So Long
  • It was past seven o'clocknow and the first purple brattices of night were draping the eastern horizon. Howell Raines' South Pacific Marlin Fishing Adventure
  • It was past seven o'clock now and the first purple brattices of night were draping the eastern horizon.
  • The boys came at length to a brattice, which is a screen, of either wood or heavy cloth, set up in a passage to divert the current of air to a bench where workmen are engaged, and dodged down behind it, after turning off their lights, of course, Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns
  • Teams dug through the debris after clearing part of the main road and rebuilding the mine brattices as they advanced.
  • There are air brattices arranged in air exits which can be used for adjusting the air directions or the air exits can be fixed with air brattices for adjusting the air directions.
  • He had his castles rebuilt, the walls repaired and strengthened, brattices and battlements constructed and trenches made in front of castles.
  • Yves let him withdraw half the length of his charge before daring to reach out for the solid rail where the brattice began, and swing himself over into the gallery. A River So Long
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