Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1809, 1937
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COMMUNING, COMMUNIN', n. “A meeting to converse on any particular subject” (Sc. 1782 J. Sinclair Ob. Sc. Dial. 116); a discussion (Abd.22 1937). This sense is obs. in Eng.Mearns 1809 G. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Kcd. 55:
In arranging the mode of culture and other conditions of a lease, the parties have commonly a strife in the communing.Fif.10 1937:
They had an awfu' communin' owre the heid o't.
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