ball vein
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]ball vein (plural ball veins)
- (mining) A sort of iron ore, found in loose masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ball vein”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)