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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1629-1660
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Slauchterit, -d, ppl. adj. (Sc. var. of e.m.E. slaughtered ppl. adj. (Shakespeare), replacing slauchtir in sense 5 a, b of Slauchtir n.) — 1629 Mure Sonn. xii 13.
Adieu till death; to die a slauchterd oxe How punisht with the palsie & the poxe 1660 Old Ross-shire II 47.
The tennentis cannot have moir without selling of thair best slauchterit kowes
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