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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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¶TRUNCHERT, ppl.adj. ? Poss. an illiterate form of tonsured, clipped, i.e. with the nap shorn or worn away.m.Lth. 1812 P. Forbes Poems 38:
A bonny flae, as black's a slae, Had a' the night been hankit, Fast by the left foot muckle tae Within Tam's trunchert blankit.