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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1698
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(Mowrie,) Mourie, n. [In the mod. dial. of Morayshire and Banffshire; of Gaelic origin.] ‘Gravel mingled with sand in its natural stratum’, shingle (SND, s.v. Mowrie.). — 1698 in D. Donaldson Cramondiana (Elgin 1965) 7.
Cutting haill grein ground and channell mourie upon the syde of the water of Spey
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