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Quotation dates: 1740
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CLUSH, n. In pl. appar. the offal of a carcase of beef.Gsw. 1740 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1911) 76:
The fleshers and their servants have crept into a bad practice and been in use to cut off what they call clushes and long pieces and others, to the lesion of the leidges who buy carcases.
[Orig. doubtful. Cf. Clushet and note and Cleeshach, n., 1.]
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