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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: 1887

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CRACKETT, n. A low wooden stool. Also used attrib.Ayr. 1887 J. Service Dr Duguid 156:
And they put me to sic needless fasherie too, with their crackett stools and their singed rags.Ayr. 1887 J. Service Dr Duguid 178:
Round aboot them on sma'er kind o' cracketts, [lay] a wheen wee black boxes with their weans.

[A dim. variant of Crackie, also found in n.Eng. dial.]

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