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 112 Balk. Timber squared as imported. Balscat. A cross patch, a termagant. Balshag. A very shaggy flannel used in mines. Ball-eyed. Wall-eyed. Ballymuck. An ill constructed thing, as a '*bally- muck of a dock." The Oornishman. Bally-rag. Violent or coarse abuse. Bandeleer. A wooden toy like a thin flat reel, moved by a string to wind and unwind. M.A.C. Banes. Beans. Banger^ or Banging. Big, very large. Banister. The baluster of a staircase. Bankers. Seat cushions. Bannel. The plant known as broom. In Celtic Cornish it is banal and banatheL Cyiisus Scojparius, Bare-ridged. " Riding bare-ridged," i.e., riding with- out a saddle. Bargain. A contract for certain work in a mine, claywork, &c. Barker. A whetstone. C. Barker's knee. Hunt, in his "Romances of the west of England," says that the fairies called buccas, or knockers, once left all their tools on Barker's knee. The knee was so injured that it continued stiff ever after. "As stiff" as Barker's knee" became a proverb. Who Barker was is not stated.