Word of the Day
Adit (AD-it)
Common clue: Mine entrance
An almost horizontal entrance to a mine usually used to service a mine.
Used
with permission: Ken Shortt
“To the north were the mines themselves: dangerous, undershored scratch drifts that went down fifty feet or so and then spread like fingers clutching for gold and silver and copper and the occasional nest of firedims. From the outside they were just holes punched into the bare and rocky earth, holes like staring eyes, each with its own pile of till and scrapings beside the adit.”
[Source: “Wizard and Glass”, by Stephen King]
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