stockwork (English, noun)
expansion: stockwork (plural stockworks)
Senses:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped, especially common with tin ore.
Forms:
form: stockworks
tags: plural