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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1672
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Deval, n. [f. Devale,v.] A sloping surface. — 1672 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XIV. 331.
To lay the ‘haill’ inner court … with ‘devalls’ on all sides guttered for conveying the rain and water that falls in the court into ‘syvers’ to be built in the several corners
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