Adit

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Admission; approach; access.

II. Adit ·noun 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.

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