Adit : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Adit	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Adit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adit n a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adit \Ad"it\, n. [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.