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- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of untop
- uncountablebusinessRemoval of overburden from an old mine to allow continued economic operation.
Untopping enabled a road to be built into part of Llechwedd in Ffestiniog in the 1960s
2015, David Gwyn, Welsh Slate: Archaeology and History of an Industry, page 1312 more examples
J.E. Greave's diaries tell us he took this suggestion on board, and on 4 September 1894 he and his brother R.M Greaves began discussing the "untopping" of a large area at Llechwedd.
2003, Ivor Wynne Jones, Victorian Slate Mining, page 59[…] continued production and extraction has resulted in the untopping of old workings, meaning that the roof has been taken off long worked-out galleries to allow good slate to be made.
2019, Anthony Coulls, The Slate Industry
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