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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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¶REWAYL'D, adj. A ghost-word copied by Train, phs. under the impression that it represented raivelled (see Raivel, v., 1.) from a misprint in a letter of Allan Ramsay's reproduced in the Gentleman's Mag. (Sept. 1784) 672, “no re-waly'd draggle”, for “no ae waly draggle” (see Chalmers's edition of Ramsay (1800) I. xxxix. note).Kcb. 1806 J. Train Poet. Rev. 64:
To her came a rewayl'd draggle, Wha had bury'd wives anew.
