Category:Adit

Ad"it, n. Etym: [L. aditus, fr. adire,, 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.