ledger wall

English

Noun

ledger wall (plural ledger walls)

(mining) The wall under a vein; the footwall.^[1]

References

^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881) “Ledger wall”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ledger wall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

[1] Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881) “Ledger wall”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.

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