mantrip

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Noun

mantrip (plural mantrips)

  1. (mining) A shuttle for transporting miners down into an underground mine.
    • 2015 June 20, David Segal, “The People v. the Coal Baron”, in New York Times‎:
      His shift was over, and he was heading out on a mantrip, a type of shuttle that transports workers.

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