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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.
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