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bostal (plural bostals) A winding way up a hill can refer to road or track - can be either side

  1. (Sussex) Alternative form of borstal
    • 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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