"bal" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bal (plural bals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cornish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 42 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with language headings in the wrong order",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856, John Murray, A Hand-book for Travellers in Devon & Cornwall (page xxxvii)",
          "text": "The surface of the mine is called the bal, and every level and shaft has a name."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Bill Smith, Pendeen (page 44)",
          "text": "Penny arrived dressed for the day as a bal-maiden and told us all about the delights of a surface worker's life at a mine in Pendeen days, which was, she told us, what a bal-maiden did."
        },
        {
          "text": "2025, George Thomas Newton, The Long Winter Ends\n\"Oo will do un, maister?\" asked Jim.\n\"The bal authorities,\" said Hunt."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The surface of a mine."
      ],
      "id": "en-bal-en-noun-Yg63SBaK",
      "links": [
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "mine",
          "mine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cornwall) The surface of a mine."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cornwall"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bal"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bal (plural bals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cornish English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 42 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Pages with language headings in the wrong order"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856, John Murray, A Hand-book for Travellers in Devon & Cornwall (page xxxvii)",
          "text": "The surface of the mine is called the bal, and every level and shaft has a name."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Bill Smith, Pendeen (page 44)",
          "text": "Penny arrived dressed for the day as a bal-maiden and told us all about the delights of a surface worker's life at a mine in Pendeen days, which was, she told us, what a bal-maiden did."
        },
        {
          "text": "2025, George Thomas Newton, The Long Winter Ends\n\"Oo will do un, maister?\" asked Jim.\n\"The bal authorities,\" said Hunt."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The surface of a mine."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "mine",
          "mine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cornwall) The surface of a mine."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cornwall"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bal"
}