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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1420
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(Lum,) Lwm, n.2 [Uncertain.] The name of some game or sport. —c1420 Ratis Raving 1242.
For resone … may nocht lat that eild to laik, Now at the lwm, now at the killis [etc.]
