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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1683-1684
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Taster, n. (ON þeisti, Norw. dial. teiste, later Sc. Teistie the black guillemot (SND).) — 1683 Coll. Aberd. & B. 100.
Of all these, except the sea cock, and seldom that, the whap, the budoch, the two kind of maws, and the taster, we see none in the winter time 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. iii 22.
Avis marina taster dicta
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