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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Uviring, n. [? Uver adj.] ? A coverlet. ‘Uviring is evidently a coverlet, the weaving of which, in woollen only, ceased to be practised in Newburgh towards the end of the first quarter of the present century.’ A. Laing in Lindores A. (1876) 240. —1657 Lindores A. 240.
[John Bickerton is spoken of as a worker of] uvirings
