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nipping-machine
Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
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1964
Because the nipper transports material from the drift to the raise, stope or sub-level by means of a small compressed-air hoist usually called a tugger, a machine that came into general use during the '30's, it has received the alternative name of nipping-machine.