airshaft (plural airshafts)
(architecture) A vertical (or near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.
(mining) A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
(manufacturing) A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.
• (architectural feature): air well, ventilation shaft, vent shaft, lightwell
Source: Wiktionary
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
