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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Limp, Lymp, appar. a Sc. var. of e.m.E. (1545) and mod. Eng. lump the fish (MLG. lumpen. MDu. lompe, Germ. lump, F. lompe, etc.). —16.. Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III. 191.
Lumps or limps 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. iii. 37.
Catalogum piscium … qui in regionibus Scotiæ reperiuntur, … pillock, skatebread, lymps or lumps
