Dead ground

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(Mining)

the portion of a vein in which there is no ore.

- Abbott.

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These comfortable conditions were soon to change, as small parties of Boers climbed up the steep gullies, which were usually in dead ground and thus invisible to the defenders, until by late morning they were able to bring aimed rifle fire upon the exposed British troops.

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