bowse

The workmen seated before it, break the pieces of mixed ore, called bowse in Derbyshire, with the bucker.

Mrs. Bowse's house was provided with a parlor in which her boarders could sit in the evening when so inclined.

Mrs. Bowse, his hard-worked landlady, began by being calmed down by his mere bearing when he came to apply for his room and board.

It was a knock, and Tembarom jumped up and threw the door open, thinking Mrs. Bowse might have come on some household errand.

He returned to Mrs. Bowse's boarding-house so late that night that even Steinberger and Bowles had ended their day.