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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1633
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By-wark, n. [e.m.E. byworke (1587).] Subsidiary work. — 1633 Master of Works Accounts XXVII. 20 b.
For by warkes wrocht … at the said castle as the compt … bearis
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