Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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BAKE, n.4 Balk, a ridge of unploughed land, lying between the ploughed portions.Bnff. 1689 in W. Cramond Annals of Banff (1891) I. 164:
By feeding ther bestiall in the bakes and that comonlie more upon the corns then the grasse, and by treding and tramping doun the same both with ther feett and the long tedders they have at them.
