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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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WHITCORN, n. A variety of plum grown in Clydesdale.Lnk. 1845 Stat. Acc.2 VI. 744:
The native varieties of this sort of fruit are, burnets, whitcorns, horse-jags (harsh gage?) bullets and devons.

[O.Sc. whitecorn, id., 1665. Presumably so called from its light colour. Cf. White, adj., 1.(13).]

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