brattice

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French breteske, from Latin bretachia; probably of Teutonic origin.

Noun

brattice (plural brattices)

  1. (mining) A wooden partition in a coal mine.
    • 1872 February 28, Peter Higson, Reports from Commissioners: Twenty-two Volumes. […], volume XVI, London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode, […], for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, OCLC 41427157, page 58:
      A practice then prevailed of blasting without nicking the side of the place which still continues and of conducting the current of air too far by means of brattice, to both of which practices I raised a strong objection. They admitted their inability to make the men nick the coal as they formerly did and thought the application of brattice could not be properly defined, but that it should be left to the discretion of the manager of each particular mine as to the distance openings should be made apart between the intake and return air courses.

Verb

brattice (third-person singular simple present brattices, present participle bratticing, simple past and past participle bratticed)

  1. (transitive) To divide into partitions of this kind.
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