 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adit
noun: a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adit \Ad"it\, noun [L. aditus, fr. adire, ?aitum, to go to; ad +
ire to go.]
1. An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly
horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which
water and ores are carried away; -- called also {drift}
and {tunnel}.
2. Admission; approach; access. [R.]
Yourself and yours shall have
Free adit. --Tennyson.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "adit":
access, admission, admittance, air lock, approach, channel,
conduit, corridor, course, ditch, duct, egress, entrance,
entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, exit, gangplank, gangway,
hall, in, ingress, inlet, intake, means of access, opening,
passage, passageway, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel,
vestibule, way, way in
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