Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1719-1751
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†FELT, n.2 The disease gravel, in comb. felt-gravel. Hence adj. feltic.Ork. 1719 in H. Marwick Merchant Lairds (1936) I. 95:
The distemper that I have laboured under is lick a felt gravell.Sc. 1750–1 W. MacFarlane Geneal. Coll. (S.H.S.) II. 151:
His Disease was a Feltic Gravel.
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