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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Rapaskift, n. (See *Kappaskift in Additions and Corrections, vol. III.) —1691 Kirkwall S. Court in H. Marwick Orkney Norn (1929) 83.
[The inquest] fynd … that the haill grass and meadows … ought … to be … devyded, and because of the former great inequality … of the grass and meadow ground they ordaine the samen … to go in rapaskift and meadowskift yearly
