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Scheth, n.3 [Late ME schett a bar or bolt; schet v. Cf. 18th c. Eng. shut a join, mend, splice (1721).] ? A crease. — 1558–9 Old Dundee II 329.
They … confessit that they were drawing schethis furth of the claith whilk it had gotten [at] the mill; but naither were of mind nor purpose to draw the samin aither in length or breid for defraud of ony man
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