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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1929

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MULLER, n.2 A pebbly beach. Also adj. deriv. mullery, pebbly.Ork. 1929 Marw.:
First we geed ower a sandy beach, and then we came tae muller, and after that tae muckle "kungles" . . . Smaa' mullery steens.

[Corresp. to Norw. dial. møller- or mølder-bakke, a shingle-bank, a conflation of marbakke, "seabank," id., with Norw. dial. mol, O.N. mǫl, pebbles.]

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