guagn.
/ɡwaɡ/ Mining.
A Cornish term for: An old working.
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guag1778
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 322 Tinners holeing into a place which has been wrought before, call it ‘Holeing in Guag’.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Cornwall Terms) Guag, a place that has been wrought before for tin.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1778- to lose the sheep dialect ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
- to lose the sheep for a ha'p'orth of tar
- to lose the sheep for a ha'porth of tar
- to lose the thread
- to lose the will to live
- to lose to view
- to lose touch
- to lose track of
- to lose weight
- to lose, to do in one's block
- to lose, to do one's block
- to louk in clay
- to louk in clay etc
- to louk in clay lead
- to louk on death
- to lout a person out of
- to lout out of
- to love
- to love a person as one's own soul
- to love alife
- to love as one's own soul
- to love fere
- to love one's fere
- to love one's love with an a
- to love one's love with an a with a b