Coal-mining. Obs. [f. FOR- (? pref.2) + BAR sb.] = BARRIER 1 g.
15[?]. in N. & Q., Ser. v. X. 307. [In Durham records (34th Rep. Dep. Keeper P. R., 207) is a reference to offences committed by miners ‘in cutting through the ‘forbarres,’ &c., when working the mines of coal and iron ore.’]
