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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1573-1651
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Pluk-up, Pluck-up fa(i)r(e. [Only Sc. Pluk v. 8 and Fair n.] A ‘grab and buy’ sale; a general scramble in which everyone tries to get as much as he can for himself. — 1573 Sempill Sat. P. xxxix. 199.
On the morne thay maid the pluk vp fair 1573 Ib. 341.
Plukup fair a1603 Tract. Leg. Naval. 64.
Luggage is not pluck up fare for everie on rives from another a1651 Calderwood IV. 400.
Sindrie naughtie … strangers … inritched in the pluck up faire of Sanct Barthlemew in France
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