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Quotation dates: 1578
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Tarboill, n. [?] Some kind of timber. — 1578 Reg. Privy S. VII 280/1.
Of the schippis cumand fra Norroway and utheris pairtis laidnit with tymmer, of everie hundreth gaistis, ane, of everie hundreth rauchteris ane, of everie hundreth tarboillis, ane, of everie hundreth wanescot ane … and siclyke of everie sort of tymmer
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