Plural of dead, referring to dead people or dead things; sometimes used in specialized contexts like mining (the dead ends of shafts) or construction.
Simple plural of 'dead,' which can be used as a noun (from Old English 'deade', meaning those who are dead). The plural preserves the Old English marker despite the word's adjectival origins.
In mining terminology, 'deads' refers to the waste rock removed from shafts, not actually dead bodies—showing how the same word gets repurposed in technical jargon to mean something vastly different.
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