Medicus-magus, : a poem, in three cantos; with a glossary. / by Richard Furness.

  • Richard Furness
Date:
1836
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    Dish.—The mineral measure containing about two gallons. Damp, [Teut. Dampff, a vapour.]—Foul air, as sweet-damp, black-damp, and fire-damp ; various destructive gases found in mines. Forfilt, or Fore-field—The end of a vein, &c. Founder The point at which the miner takes up the two first meers of ground, or the founder meers. Fang A passage made for conducting air after the miner. Farmer One who acts for another; as the Lord of the Field, and his Farmer. Groove The works of a mine, properly the adit, or shaft. Hade Any declination of the rock from the per- pendicular. Hang-bench—See Stowes. Hoppet A measure resembling a peck. See dish. Jig-pin A wooden pin used to stop the handle of a turn-tree, in drawing by hand at a mine. Kibble—A small bucket, used in drawing a sump, &c., by hand. Kevvle A mineral. Knock-bench—The bench on which knockings are broken. Lime-breck—See Breck. Lot A quantity of ore. The Lord’s lot is every thirteenth dish, which the Barmaster takes as his due. Lords ore—The ore which the Lord of the Field claims in right of his Manor. Main-rake—The principal leading or lode of a rake. Meer, or Mear—\_Moera, Sax. a bauk, boundary, or trench.] A certain length of ground measured in the direction of a vein, rake, &c. In some places 32 yards, in others 29. Meer-stake—A stake put down at the end of each Meer. The Saxons had their Meer-stones, for boundaries and land-marks, on the banks in their uninclosed fields.