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windz

  [winz]
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–noun
winze 1 .

winze

1  [winz]
–noun Mining.
a vertical or inclined shaft driven downward from a drift into an orebody.
Also, windz.
Compare raise (def. 38).

Origin:
1750–60; earlier winds, appar. deriv. of wind 2 in obs. n. sense “apparatus for winding”
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