scrowln.
/skraʊl/ A thin incrustation, calcareous or silicious, upon the wall of a lode.
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1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 99 What they call a Scrowl of the true Lode in the Cross-Gossan.
1884 R. Hunt Brit. Mining 912.
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