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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

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.

[Appar. a mistake for tore, see Torr, n., 3.]

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