loobn.
/luːb/ Tin-mining.
1. (See quot. 1674.)
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1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 121 The dross and earth..is carried all along the trough to a pit or vessel, into which the trough delivers it, called a loob.
2. plural. (See quots.)
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1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 324 Loobs, tin slime or sludge of the after leavings, or leavings slime.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Cornwall Terms) Loobs, slime containing ore.
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