bostal

English

Noun

bostal (plural bostals)

  1. (Sussex) a small road leading up a hill.
    • 1916, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight
      When the practice was over it was still light, and Robert and Bessie turned inevitably along the little bostal that trickles through the fields […]
    • 1965, Geoffrey Jules Marcus, Before the lamps went out
      […] up the chalky bostals over the Downs from the secluded villages and hamlets […]

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