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gubbin Mining.|ˈgʌbɪn|
[? A variant of gobbin, though prob. connected with gubbins.]
A kind of ironstone. Also gubbin bat (bat n.2 12), gubbin iron(stone).
1712H. Bellers in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 542 A black fissile Substance, called the Gublin-Bat [sic]. Ibid. A hard blackish Iron Oar, with white spots in it, called the Gublin Iron-Stone [sic]. 1847–8H. Miller First Impr. v. (1857) 70 A specimen..known to the miners as the ‘gubbin iron’. 1860W. White Wrekin xxvi. 271 ‘Newmine’, ‘gubbins’, ‘blue-flats’, and ‘black-jacks’. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Gubbin, a kind of ironstone. |