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Webster 1913 Edition

adit

ad′it

(ăd′ĭt)
,
Noun.
[L.
aditus
, fr.
adire
,
aditum
, to go to;
ad
+
ire
to go.]
1.
An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; – called also
drift
and
tunnel
.
2.
Admission; approach; access.
[R.]
Yourself and yours shall have
Free
adit
.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Adit

ADIT

,
Noun.
[L. aditus, from adeo, aditum, to approach, ad and eo, to go.]
An entrance or passage; a term in mining, used to denote the opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away. It is usually made in the side of a hill. The word is sometimes used for aid-shaft, but not with strict propriety.

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