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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Rathillet, v. [Nonce use, f. the name of the Fife village in Halkerston of Rathillet, one of the assassins of Archbishop Sharp.] tr. To assassinate. —1695 Sibbald in Anal. Scot. I 153.
They had sworn they would ‘rathillet’ me
