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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1811
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¶TURLS, n.pl. The haunch bones of an ox.w.Sc. 1811 J. Macdonald Agric. Hebr. 425:
His quarters (from the hip to the rump) should be long and tapering gradually from the hips backwards, and the turls, or pot-bones, not in the least protuberant.