goaf

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English

Etymology

Compare gob.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡəʊf/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

goaf (plural goafs or goaves)

  1. A rick or stack (of hay, etc.) when laid up inside a barn
  2. (mining) That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed
  3. (mining) The waste left in old workings; goafing

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “goaf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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