"dropshaft" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1992 April 3, Gary Washburn, “Great Chicago Loop Flood cripples businesses”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 2023-01-01:",
          "text": "Melas said that district engineers had located Deep Tunnel dropshafts that were near a portion of the freight tunnels and that they would drill, cut or blast through to the flooded areas \"as soon as possible.\"",
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          "ref": "2006, Maurizio Brocchini, Filippo Trivellato, Vorticity and Turbulence Effects in Fluid Structure Interaction, WIT Press, →ISBN, page 161:",
          "text": "The water flows from a large suitably fed tank into the dropshaft through a sharp-edged orifice, whose diameter (Do) is 100mm large.",
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          "ref": "2022 September 12, Patty Wetli, “Chicago Dries Out From Intense Deluge. ‘We Don’t See Rainfall Rates That High’”, in WTTW, archived from the original on 2022-10-10:",
          "text": "The downpour led to some dramatic images of stranded motorists and geysers bursting through manhole covers. The spouts are a rare effect which occurs when too much water rushes into a dropshaft and traps air that’s normally vented.",
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          "ref": "2023 January 11, Daniel Beekman, “Seattle’s huge sewage tunnel is halfway drilled. Take a look inside”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the original on 2023-01-24:",
          "text": "The gigantic drill that began digging the deep-bore tunnel from Ballard to Wallingford in 2021 passed its halfway mark last month, chewing through soil that gets hauled away to a Ballard drop shaft (a vertical hole that reaches down to the tunneling site from street level) in 25-ton train carloads.",
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        "A vertical shaft which objects can drop through."
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          "ref": "1992 April 3, Gary Washburn, “Great Chicago Loop Flood cripples businesses”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 2023-01-01:",
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          "text": "The water flows from a large suitably fed tank into the dropshaft through a sharp-edged orifice, whose diameter (Do) is 100mm large.",
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