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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1828
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¶THORN, ppl.adj. Also thorned. Entertained, provided for, esp. with food and drink; fared, eaten and drunk. A nonce variant or corruption of forn s.v. Fare, v. Thorn'd is formed on the assumption of a tr. weak verb thorn.ne.Sc. 1828 P. Buchan Ballads I. 2, 101:
Ye'll eat and drink, my merry men a', An' see ye be weell thorn. . . . When they had eaten and well drunken, And a, had thorn'd fine.
