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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SASTER, n. Also sauster. A kind of sausage filled with haggis stuffing, “a pudding composed of meal and minced meat, or of minced hearts and kidneys salted, put into a bag or tripe” (Lth., Rxb. 1825 Jam.; Dmf. 1894 Trans. Dmf. and Gall. Antiq. Soc. 156; ‡Ayr., Dmf. 1958). [′sɑstər]Sc. 1823 Hogg Perils of Women II. vii.:
Commend me to a white Saster.Lth., Rxb. 1825 Jam.:
Ye are as stiff as a stappit saster.s.Sc. c.1830 Hist. Bwk. Nat. Club (1916) 69:
Her mother had been making sausters which she had hung up in the lum to dry.