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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

†HAMP, n.2 Sc. form of Eng. hemp.Sc. 1721 D. Warrand Culloden Papers (1925) II. 219:
We dont pretend to guess whither you are sending these twelve men of war, if for hamp . . . that commodity was never more wanted in Brittan than att present.

[For the form, cf. O.E. hænep, O.N. hamp, id.]

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