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Quotation dates: 1583-1617
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Scurrie, Scury, v. [e.m.E. scurrie (1580), back-formation from Scurrio(u)r n.] tr. To reconnoitre. — 1583 Cal. Sc. P. VI 665.
His … horsmen wer in ordour, wharoff some went furth to scury the feilds a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 108.
Thay directit … sum horsemen to scurrie the feyldis for vivers
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