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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1730

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BINTY, adj. Covered with bent grass.Mearns 1730 Baron Court Bk. of Urie (1892) 132:
From the water draught of the loch of Balnagight, including the binty ground along to the edge of the uppermost part of Bruxden.

[A common change in n.Sc., cf. pension, pinsion, Henry, Hinry, gentry, gintry.]

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