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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1650-1666
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Fut(e)-post, n. [e.m.E. foot-poast (1602).] A post going on foot. —c1650 Spalding I. 149.
The Marquess fut post, … wes takin be the covenanteris 1666 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 234.
[To] aggree with him anent the establishing of ane fute post to and from Edinburgh
