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Quotation dates: 1644
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Jinke-roll, or ?Juike-roll, n. (?) —1644 Shetland Witch Trial in Hibbert Shetland Islands (1822) 594.
Ye sent her ane cheese of the breadth of one loof, composed by your said devilish art of witchcraft, with ane jinke-roll, and desiring her the said Janet to eat the same
