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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1669
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Jug, v.2 As jugging vbl. n. [f. Jug n. 1] tr. To verify as to capacity by means of a standard ‘jug’. — 1669 Melrose Reg. Rec. II. 232.
[Thomas Law, weaver in Melrose, fined] for his opposeing of the jugging of the stopes and engadgeing to bring ane jug out of Jedbrugh brunt and sealled by the deane of gild, quherin he succumbed
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