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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1674
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Levelling, vbl. n. [e.m.E. levelling (1580) aiming, levelling (-rule) (1598); f. Levell v.] Making level; also ? concr. a levelled floor. — 1674 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 200.
The Council … thinks fitt for makeing the wholl buildings as to the foir sydwalls or fronts thereof and levelling of the wholl floorings of the samyn [etc.] 1674 Ib.
That the nether bed of the baisse of the pillars shall be equall with the superface of the Hie Street and the levelling thereof to run eastward that there may be ane pedester under the neather bed of the bais
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