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Cream, v. [f. cream Crame n. or creamer Cremar.] intr. To keep a market-stall; to trade in this way. — 1729 Stirling B. Rec. II. 206.
The stands of the chapmen who then cream in the mercat of this burgh 1729 Ib.
If there be chapmen … creaming in one stand
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