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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1815

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CONCURRENT, n. Sc. law: one who accompanies a sheriff's officer as witness or assistant.Sc. 1815 Scott Guy M. (1817) xxxiii.:
Mac-Guffog, the thief-taker, and twa or three concurrents, had a man in hands in the kitchen.

[O.Sc. has concur, to combine; to act together, from 1513 (D.O.S.T.).]

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