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Quotation dates: 1503-1506
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Battering, vbl. n.3 [Of obscure origin.] Stiffening, lining (?). — 1503 Treasurer's Accounts II. 236.
Clath to the battering of the ermyng 1506 Ib. III. 41.
For v dosan of skinnis to the batering of it [sc. the robe ryall] 1506 Ib. 48.
Ledder skinnis to the battering of it
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