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 319 Cross-course. (Pro. cross-coose.) Cross bar, cross- gossan, cross-lode. ^' Is either a vein of a metallic nature, a cross-gossan, or else a soft earth, clay, or flookan like a vein, which unheads and intersects the true lode." Fryce. See LodeS. Dilluer, or Dillueing sieve. A horse-hair sieve used in washing the fine ore stuff, as in streaming tin. Pryce. From the Celtic Cornish dilkitgh or dyhjer, to let go, to let fly, to send away. Down-park. An enclosed down, or Common. See Park. Dowst. Dust. (See Douse.) From dowstoll, Celtic Cornish, all to pieces. Drift. In mining "is the level that the men drive underground from one shaft to another, or north and south out of the lode, in which, only one man at a time can work, it being but a working big, and about five or six feet high.'' Pryce. DriggOe^ or Drigger. The lowest of the tier of pumps of a water-engine. Pryce. The word is a form of trig or trigger, that which props up, or supports. Duggle. A tinner's feast. Also called a Troil. Pryce. Elvan. "A very hard close grained stone." Pryce. Elven in Celtic Cornish means, a spaik of fire; as if the name were applied to stone hard enough to strike fire.