noun
1. : work which must be done to prepare for future operations but from which there is no direct return (as stripping the surface to expose rock which is to be quarried)
2. dead works plural , archaic : upperworks 1
noun
1. : work which must be done to prepare for future operations but from which there is no direct return (as stripping the surface to expose rock which is to be quarried)
2. dead works plural , archaic : upperworks 1
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012