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 320 Fang. (See Pangings, or Vangings. Takings, earnings, winnings. Also New-fang.) Craik {Eng- lish Literature, and Language, p. 87) quotes the following Semi-Saxon line.  On fang bring hegilich with the in Godes riche." i.e. Take, bring him quickly with thee into God's kingdom. This written use of the word dates about, or before A.D. 1264, and no doubt it was in oral use much earlier. Fast. The solid, unmoved ground, or rock, in mining is called ^' the fast" or -'fast ground. Floran. Very fine tin-stuff. (Flour tin.) Pryce. Fork, Forking, In fork. See Bottoms in fork. Catchers. The after-leavings of tin ore. Pryce, See LoobS. Gibb'n Camborne. "Give him Camborne." A threat of punishment used by Cornish rowdies. See Meara-geeks. GoUop, To goUop 'iup. To gobble up, to eat ravenously. " He golloped up the whole of it in no time." GoUop. A lump, as of food. Same as DoUop. Q.V. Gounce. See Strake. Grass Capp^n. Grass Captain is the one who super- intends the men, &c., working '^at grass" i.e., on the surface of a mine. Gulph of ore. When a part of a lode proves very rich, miners say they have a ^^ gulph of ore."