Business, Mining A place where one roadway crosses another, specifically where an airway was built across the top of another airway for ventilation purposes.
overcast
adj
Etymology From Middle English overcasten, equivalent to over- + cast. Compare Swedish överkast.
1
Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
The Dawn is over-caſt, the Morning low’rs, And heavily in Clouds brings on the Day, […]1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
2
Figuratively In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.