heapstead meaning

• noun
    The buildings and works around a mine-shaft

• Outdoors, next to the Heapstead, is a sinking engine, mounted on red bricks.
• The heapstead and winding engine house were constructed entirely of brick to a German design and is unique in British coal mining.
• The downcast ( Busty ) shaft suffered damage all the way to the surface, and then the casing between the pit top and the heapstead } } was blown down.
• Caphouse Colliery was again developed in 1876 when the steam winding engine house, boiler yard, chimney, stone heapstead and ventilation shaft were completed for Emma Lister Kay, the sole proprietor.
• The winding engine was the source of power for hauling miners, equipment and coal up and down the shaft in a cage, the top of the shaft being in the adjacent heapstead, which encloses the frame holding the wheel around which the hoist cable travels.
• Inside the Heapstead, tubs of coal from the shaft were weighed on a weighbridge, then tipped onto jigging screens, which sifted the solid lumps from small particles and dust-these were then sent along the picking belt, where pickers, often women, elderly or disabled people or young boys ( i . e . workers incapable of mining ), would separate out unwanted stone, wood and rubbish.

• "heapstead" meaning in Chinese: 井口房
• "heapstead" meaning in Russian: 1) _горн. поверхность, оборудование поверхности, надшахтны...