costean
English
Etymology
From Cornish cothas (“dropped”) + stean (“tin”).
Verb
costean (third-person singular simple present costeans, present participle costeaning, simple past and past participle costeaned)
- (mining) To search for lodes by sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, so as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
Related terms
- costeaning
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for costean in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Acteons, Secotan, octanes
Spanish
Verb
costean
- Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present indicative form of costear.
- (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present indicative form of costear.