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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The horn joint which connects the two parts of a fiail.
  • noun A horse.
  • noun In mining, a wall of a lode: so called by Cornish miners, and chiefly when the country closely adjacent to the lode itself has been more or less altered by those chemical agencies under the influence of which the latter was formed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A horse; a nag.
  • noun (Mining) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a horse
  • noun mining A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

Etymologies

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From Latin caballus, via Icelandic.

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