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Quotation dates: 1860
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BARNBOUGLE BLAST, n. A south-west wind blowing across the Firth of Forth above Edinburgh.Fif. 1860 H. Farnie Fife Coast 30:
These drifts have been and are occasioned by strong Sou'westers, popularly known as Barnbougle Blasts, coming as they do from the direction of the old castle [of Barnbougle] at Cramond.
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