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(Sape-boiler,) Sope-boyller, Soap-boyler, -boyeller, n. [e.m.E. sopeboyler (1594).] A soap-boiler. (Cf. saip-brewar(e, Sape n. 2 b.) — 1668 Glasgow B. Rec. III 112.
Francis Muire, sope boyller, … his calling in makeing and boylling of sope 1676 Edinb. B. Rec. X 275.
Robert Douglas soap boyeller in Leith 1695 Acts IX 491/2.
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