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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1633-1700
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Lump, n.2 (See quot.: and cf. Limp.) — c1650-1700 Descr. Zetland 9.
Here in the Summer time is caught an excellent kind of Fish … called by the Inhabitants Brissmacks, by the Hollanders Lump, and by the Scots & English Tusk 1633 (1711) Sibbald's Orkn. & Shetl. 23.
The Hollanders call it lump
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