bal

plural bals

1. CornwallThe surface of a mine.

   "Oo will do un, maister?" asked Jim. "The bal authorities," said Hunt.

   2025, George Thomas Newton, The Long Winter Ends

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   The surface of the mine is called the bal, and every level and shaft has a name.

   1856, A Hand-book for Travellers in Devon & Cornwall, John Murray, page xxxvii

   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.

   2014, Bill Smith, Pendeen, page 44

plural BALs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableastrophysicsInitialism of broad absorption line or broad absorption line trough.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of biphenotypic acute leukaemia.

1. abbreviationinitialismBangladeshi politicsInitialism of Bangladesh Awami League, a major political party.
2. Philippinesabbreviationhistoricalinitialismchiefly BaguioInitialism of Benguet Auto Line, a Manila Railroad Company subsidiary which formerly serviced buses that connected Baguio to the Damortis, La Union train line.

1. abbreviationnot comparableAbbreviation of bald (no hair).

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