bostal

English

Noun

bostal (plural bostals)

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 […]

Anagrams

• balots, blasto, blasto-, bloats, oblast