Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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IRISH GARDEN, n.comb. A potato patch taken in from the hill on a hill-grazing, fenced with a turf wall, and worked till exhaustion (Mry., Rxb. 1960).