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English
Etymology
From German Stollen (“tunnel”).
Noun
stulm (plural stulms)
- (mining) A shaft, conduit, adit, or gallery to drain a mine.
1881, United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Commercial Relations of the United States: Reports from the Consuls of the United States on the Commerce, Manufactures, Etc., of Their Consular Districts, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 494:… they have to advance the lower stulm on each side of the tunnel … the advancement of the stulm, … it must be finished, including the graveling.
1932, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume 414, Digitized edition, U.S. Government Patent Office, published 2008, page 709:… an upper chamber, a stulm, a lower chamber in open communication with the lower end of the head shaft, and arranged at substantially the level of the stulm, and a downwardly extending sill divinding the lower end of the shaft from the stulm so that the lower chamber is at normal pressure and the shaft is at negative pressure.
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