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“A bonny errand it is,” said old Lucky Simson, “to carry away a lying-in woman as a gled [Footnote: Or Kite.] would do a clocking-hen.”
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"A bonny errand it is," said old Lucky Simson, "to carry away a lying-in woman as a gled [Footnote: Or Kite.] would do a clocking-hen."
The Surgeon's Daughter Walter Scott 1801
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(noun) - A sum of money put out to interest in a bank. Aberdeenshire. --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
April 22, 2018