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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1450-1512, 1566-1570
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Stork(e, n. [ME and e.m.E. steorc (Ancr. R.), stork (Manning), storke (Trevisa), OE storc, ON storkr.] A stork. Also, once, as a surname. — 1365 Exchequer Rolls II 210.
Compotum … Ade Stork balliuorum burgi de Are c1450-2 Howlat 697 (A).
In flesche tyme, quhen the fische war away flemyt, Quha was stewart bot the stork, stallwart & styth c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) xxxiii 84.
The stork straik ay but stynt 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Georgics ii 320.
Candida … avis, ciconia (the storke)
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