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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1679
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(Pirl-,) Pirrell-pig, n. (Pig n.2 With the first element, cf. Pirl v. Cf. also mod. Sc. dial. pirlie-pig ‘a money-box, gen. circular in shape and made of earthenware, with a slot for inserting coins’.) See also Old Dundee I. 32. — 1679 Perth Shoemakers 9.
[The opening of] the pirrell pig [and £6/5/6 d. found therein]
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