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bal

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noun
  1. 1

    The surface of a mine.Cornwall

    • The surface of the mine is called the bal, and every level and shaft has a name.
    • Penny arrived dressed for the day as a bal-maiden and told us all about the delights of a surface worker's life at a mine in Pendeen days, which was, she told us, what a bal-maiden did.

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