a. Mining. ? Obs. Soft.
1747. Hooson, Miner’s Dict., Leppey. ’Tis when Work is Soft, Kind and Winable enough, without any Hardship, as Boreing, Cuting, Blasting, or such like. Ibid., U ij b. We drive at the Vein Head in the first Place, because there it is likely that the Vein may be the most Kind or Leppey.
