At length the gallery came to an end, though from it a small "winze," or passage, barely wide enough to crawl through, led upward at a sharp angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines] Reference

A water filled winze with log cribbing stands across from the adit within the stope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Spooky spaces underground: abandoned American iron mines] Reference

He should enter the mine and follow the left drift until he came upon McIntyre in the winze.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference

A winze is sunk underhand, while a rise is put up overhand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration] Reference

They were in a winze about thirty fathoms from the engine-shaft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

Moreover, it is easier to follow the ore in a rise than in a winze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration] Reference

'Was he that when he went down the broken winze to poor Ben Holden?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy] Reference

There was no draught, such as he had believed would issue from the winze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines] Reference

"About 60 feet," said he, "it's a winze, and goes down to the next level!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories] Reference

Oliver by the arms and dragged him hastily towards the nearest winze that led upward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

It was even doubtful if he could back out after having penetrated a short distance into the winze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines] Reference

By this time Oliver had partially recovered, and suggested that they should ascend the winze to the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

On hearing the noise they ran to this winze, and, looking down, saw the water boiling and roaring far below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

A stope 800 to 1000 feet long can be operated with a winze at either end and with levels 200 or 220 feet apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration] Reference

It thus all arrives at a single point, -- the winze, -- and must be drawn from a single ore-pass into the level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration] Reference

He was still engaged in prayer when the water drove them from the level, and compelled them to re-ascend the winze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

They were in a level which the water entered, not by flowing along or descending, but, by rising up through a winze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

The property is developed by five levels off of a vertical shaft to 750 feet, and two levels off of an inclined winze to 1,000 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

When a miner drives the end of his level so far that the air will not circulate, a new winze is usually sunk down to him from the level above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

They heard the roar of the approaching torrent, and the father and younger son James rushed towards the winze, intending to ascend the ladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

This winze was almost completed, but one of the men employed at it had suddenly become unwell that day, and no other had been appointed to the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

But they had no time to speak -- scarcely to think -- for the water was already boiling up through the winze like a huge fountain, and filling the level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

At the first rush the water had almost filled the level where it occurred, and, sweeping onward about eight fathoms to a winze, plunged down and partly over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

Determined to save his candle for use in the unknown winze, he slowly groped his way through utter darkness, and finally reached what he believed to be the end of the drift.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines] Reference

“It’s an old winze,” Lee-Ash commented, then shrugged free of Deerhorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference

This winze accesses a lower stope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Spooky spaces underground: abandoned American iron mines] Reference

“Where does that other winze lead to?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference

An 'loot a winze, an' drew a stroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference

An’ loot a winze, an’ drew a stroke, 205.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halloween] Reference

He fell down that winze and broke his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

750 feet, and two levels off of an inclined winze to 1,000 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

A little shaft which he called a "winze.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado] Reference

A winze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration] Reference

Look out now -- here is a winze. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference