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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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¶SHODE, n. A plot or division of land, sown out in oats, wheat, etc. and “denominated from the kind of grain which it presently bears” (Fif. a.1838 Jam. MSS. XI. 165).
[Variant of or mistake for shade s.v. Shed, n., 4.]
