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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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†INWICE, n., v. ne.Sc. form of Eng. invoice. Cf. P.L.D. § 137.1. [′ɪnwəis]Mry. 1897 J. Mackinnon Braefoot Sk. i.:
When he got in a cask of paraffin, he measured it out gallon by gallon into a stock cask to see if it “tallied wi' the inwice.” “My last cask o' ile . . . wis inwiced forty gallons.”