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Quotation dates: 1476
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(Mid-,) Mydland, n. [Mid a.; Land n.1 8.] The middle portion of a tenement, between the Foreland and the Bakland. — 1476 Peebles B. Rec. I. 181.
Walter Blacklokis land was na brader na it awch to be, nother in forland na in mydland, nor ȝit on the bak syd
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