All aditsmust be given a small amount of grade for drainage necessities.
There are some places in which ore bodies extend to, or exist at, such depths that adits could not be projected to get beneath enough of the ore to warrant their construction.
These adits remain in several places, and where they have been opened have yielded up iron bars and picks.
As the drift tin was exhausted, and the slag of the earlier miners was used up, it became necessary to run adits for tin, and work the veins.
As the danger of a fall of material from the roofs of the adits and galleries was well understood, it was customary to support them by means of wooden posts, or, where the material was sufficiently firm, to arch them.
They were but portions of the mountain, into which, by adits from the crater, the miners had burrowed.
From the crater thus formed, they had driven adits into the bowels of the mountain.
There is no tunnelling, no nasty shafts and adits to be made; and shafts and adits were beyond the capacity of primitive man, furnished with bone and oak picks only.
What with nooks, caves, and adits in the abandoned mines, we might search for a month of Sundays and not find the poor fellow.
Indeed, the engineer of to-day hesitates to attack the mountain sides with such bold adits as the Spaniard, with inferior materials, drove into them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
