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▪ I. bal
Also 6–7 ball.
[a. Cornish bal ‘collection of mines.’]
A mine. attrib., as in bal-girl, bal-work.
c1600Norden Spec. Brit. Cornw. (1728) 45 Godolphyn ball. 1678Phil. Trans. XII. 951 Godolphin Ball is the most famous of all the Balls or Mines in Cornwall. 1812Ann. Reg. 52/1 Bal girls, as the girls are called who work about the mines. 1851Kingsley Yeast xiii. 252 He could not stand the bal work.
▪ II. bal
obs. f. ball and bale n. fire. |