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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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(Quhitecorn,) Whitecorne, n. [In later Sc. dial. as whitcorn, ‘a variety of plum grown in Clydesdale’ (SND, s.v. Whitcorn). Cf. e.m.E. wheate-plumme (1538), white- (1611), L. cērea prūna. The second element may perh. be a metathesised var. of mod. Sc. and north. Eng. dial. crone a cranberry, e.m.E. crone(-bery) (Gerarde, 1597), LG kroon(-bere).] A kind of plum. — 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 46.
Plumes, wery like that we call the whitecorne
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