Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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TASS, n.2 Given in glossaries as a heap, clump or cluster, as in Eng. dial., quoting A. Cunningham's poem There lived a lass in Inverness i., but the word is a misreading of the orig. tap (in R. Cromek Remains (1810) 180).
