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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1587
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Ironing, vbl. n. Fitting with iron. — 1587 (1650) Dundee B. Laws 143.
The reparation … of the tolbuith of this brugh, and specially … the stanchening and ironing of the beisse windowes of the same
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