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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1633-1634
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Haskly, adv. [Hask a.] Harshly, roughly; discordantly. — 1633 Johnston Diary (1911) I. 5.
For evin the Saturday thairafter thou sau hir and consented to the proponing of the mariage, yet haskly having no hope of it nor great lyking to it 1634 Ib. 237.
Things went somquhat haskly that day
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