Goaf

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  • n. That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob .
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A stack or cock, as of grain.
  • n. A rick of corn in the straw laid up in a barn.
  • n. 3. In coal-mining, a space from which coal has been worked away, and which is more or less filled up with refuse.
    • Word Usage
    "But experts said that the preferred theory was that a collapse of the mine's roof in the "goaf" - the void left behind after coal is removed - released methane into the mine."
    Equivalent
    to work the gob   
    Variant
    gob   
     
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