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Lit-fat, n. Also: litt- and -fatt. [Lit n.; Fat n.1] A dyeing vat. 1548 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 259.
Ane litfat, girthit with jrne c1575 Balfour Pract. 586.
Gif ony litstar, beand burges, puttis his awin hand in the lit-fat 1578 Edinb. Test. VI. 109.
Thrie stane of fyne quhyt woll reddie for the lit fat 1600 State P. (Reg. H.) No. 108/10. 25.
Adame Gray wes at his litt fattis 1662 Crim. Trials III. 605.
We took a threid of each cullor of yairne that wes in the … litt-fatt … and did put the threidis in the fatt 1662 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 239.
[They] dimolished the said compleanars lit fatt
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