v. local. intr. Of coal: To run together or cake with heat. Crozling coal: a caking or bituminous coal.
1811. Farey, Derbyshire, I. 177. On the banks of the Erewash … crozling or melting coals are very rare.
1834. E. Mammatt, Ashby Coal-Field, Gloss. 100. Crozling.—This takes place when small coal aggregates in burning.
1855. J. Phillips, Man. Geol., Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire … Some of the coal is of a ‘crozling’ or caking nature.
