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double-jacking
[< double + jack fellow, laborer]
Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a method of drilling in which one man strikes with a double-jack a drill-steel held and rotated by his mate.
Quotations
1944
[Caption] Double-jacking. Drilling a down hole with an 8-pound hammer.
1963
There were no Yukon engines to create compressed air. Double jacking was the order of the day, the heavy sledges driving steel deep into the native rock.