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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1610
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Harskly, -elie, adv. [Harsk a.] Roughly, harshly. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xxviii. 437.
The maydine … hynt hyme harskly be the hare 1610 Hume in Calderwood VII. 85.
The word … sounds so harskelie … at the first hearing
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