Crozle. World English Historical Dictionary

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v. local. intr. Of coal: To run together or cake with heat. Crozling coal: a caking or bituminous coal.

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1811.  Farey, Derbyshire, I. 177. On the banks of the Erewash … crozling or melting coals are very rare.

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1834.  E. Mammatt, Ashby Coal-Field, Gloss. 100. Crozling.—This takes place when small coal aggregates in burning.

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1855.  J. Phillips, Man. Geol., Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire … Some of the coal is of a ‘crozling’ or caking nature.

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