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Thrust.


1. (Mining-engineering.) The breaking downward of the roof of a gallery, owing to the weight of the superincumbent strata. Opposed to creep, which is an upheaval of the gallery floor.


2. (Husbandry.) The white whey which last leaves the curd in pressing.

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