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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1587
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Stanchening, vbl. n. [e.m.E. stanchonyng (1528); Stancheoun v.] The action of the verb. —1587 Dundee B. Laws 143.
The reparation … of the tolbuith of this brugh, and specially … the stanchening and ironing of the beisse windowes of the same
