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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cut off the turf or sward of land.
  • noun A skin; membrane.
  • noun The rennet of the calf.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.
  • intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To cut the turf from, as for burning.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb UK, dialect To cut the turf from, as for burning.

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