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close timbering
The setting of timber sets and lagging very close together when shaft sinking or tunneling through very loose ground or crushed coal in thick seams.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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