scowlesn.
dialect.
With plural agreement. (Also scowl-holes.) See quots.
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1835 4th Rep. Dean Forest Comm. 3 The excavations, provincially called Scowles, which exist in many parts of the Forest, have evidently been made for the purpose and in the course of getting out the ore.
1884 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 10 288 The word applied to the actual quarries is usually scowl-holes, Scowles having become a place-name in several localities.
Derivatives
scowle v. (intransitive) (of mine-workings) to cave in.
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1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Scowles..A very common word here [i.e. in the Forest of Dean] for the sides of workings in coal or iron mines falling in. The miners say ‘scowling in’.
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