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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1649
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Spear(e, n. (?) — 1649 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 781.
Four tunn quart stoupes pryce of the peice sex pund twentie speares pryce of the peice twentie shillings fyve dison of plaites
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