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Quotation dates: 1768
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†CRANSHACH, CRANSHAK, n. “A crooked, distorted person” (n.Sc. 1808 Jam., cranshach).Abd. 1768 A. Ross What ails the Lasses vi.:
There's wratacks an' cripples an' cranshaks An' a' the wandoghts that I ken.
