| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hold out! | Mining | Derb. An exclamation by the banksperson down a shaft to the bottomer, when workers are about to descend the shaft, to let them know that they are not to send up a load of coal, but merely the empty rope or chain. (references) | |
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