Scowl

SCOWLE, sb.1 and v. Glo. [skoul.] 1. sb. pl. Excavations caused by the workings of old mines. Also in comp. Scowl-holes. This word is used in the Forest of Dean to designate the immense clefts or crevices whence the outcrop of iron ore has been quarried in times past, much no doubt by the Romans, and much also at far more recent date. Indeed some of these quarries were worked with auxiliary adits or drifts, within the past three years... The word applied to the actual quarries is usually ‘scowl-holes,’ Scowles having become a place-name in several localities, N. & Q. (1884) 6th S. x. 288; N. & Q. 418; Glo.1 At a spot near Bream the old workings are called ‘The Scowles.’ 2. v. With in: to fall in, applied to the sides of workings in coal or iron mines. Glo.1

SCOWLE, sb.2 Obs. Dev. Also in forms scoule, skole, skoole. Rubbish. Used... in some connection with road metal, N. & Q. (1884) 6th S. x. 288; 1561-2. Payed for caryinge of scowle that laye in the churche yarde, ijs. viijd., Worth Tavistock Records (1887) 26; 1574-5. Paid for caryadge awaie of the scoule, iiijd., WORTH Tavistock Records 33; 1538-9. For carynge awaye of the skoole... ijd. For carynge oute of the skole of the churche, ijd. ob., WORTH Tavistock Records 17.