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Quotation dates: 1615
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Wrang handit, adj. [Wrang adj. 6 b and Handit adj.1 Cf. Richt-handit adj.] Left-handed. — 1615 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 366.
To Alexander Galbraith maissone quha being wrang handit wes put to ane daingerous peice of wark … that uthir right handit maissouns could nocht win to xx s.
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