Ill Back-j ouster. An itinerant fish-dealer who carries the fish in a cawal, or basket, on the back. See Cowal and Jowder- Mousehole, Backlet, or Backside. The yard, or court behind a house. Backsyfore, or Backsyforsy. The hind part before. Bagganet. Bayonet. Bal. Amine. Celtic Cornish halas, to dig, to delve, and bal, a pick, a mattock, a shovel. Bal. Loud talking or chattering, "Hould tha bM, dew," " Hould yer bal," i.e., Do cease talking, hold your tongue. Bal. To thump or thrash any one, *^ Gibb'n a good balin," "Bal'^nwell." Balin. (Pronounced bah-lin.) A thrashing. Also, crying or blubbering, " What be'ee balin about ? " JBeal, healo, Saxon, meaning, misery, misfortune, and in Celtic Cornish, bal, a plague, or pestilence.
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Shakspere in Coriolanus. Also poison, as ••For light she hated as the deadly hale." Spenser^s Fairy Queen. Bal-maid, Bal-girl, Bal-maiden. A girl who works on the surface at a mine. Balch. A stout bit of cord, a rope. Bal-dag. To bespatter with mine slime. M.A.C.
