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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1632
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Stifle, v. [ME and e.m.E. stufle (Trevisa), stuffle (c1400), stifil (c1495), stifle (1513).] Of the legs: To be deadened of feeling, to be numbed. — 1632 Lithgow Trav. v 205.
I would often fetch a walke, to stretch my legs, that were stifled with a stumbling beast
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