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Quotation dates: 1724, 1874
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THRIPPLING, vbl.n. Only in comb. thrip(p)lin(g)-kame, a comb-like instrument for cleaning the seeds of flax from the stems, a rippling-comb.Sc. 1724 Ramsay T.-T. Misc. (1876) I. 34:
Lassie, lend me your braw hemp heckle, And I'll lend you my thripling kame.Clc. 1874 J. Crawford Mem. Alloa 74:
Plyin' wi' eident han' her thriplin' kaim.
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