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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1689
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Seally, n. (e.m.E. sallie, -ey, sale (1560), salew (1542) a sally from a besieged place, a sortie, ? influenced in form by Sailȝe n.) — 1689 Acts XII 50/1.
To secure that no man be putt in the castle nor any seally made out of it
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