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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375
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Bule, n.2 [OF. bulle, boul(le, med. L. boulus, bulus, bolum.] Birch. c 1240 Lindores Chart. 79.
Ligna que dicuntur wrawes de bule et de auhne c 1250 Liber Calchou 90.
Ut … sufficienter accipiant de bosco meo stock et ramail tam de quercu quam de bule 1326 Exchequer Rolls I. 58.]
[In literio pro cameris … cum ramis bulorum cindendis et portandis, pro aula et cameris reparandis
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