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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1500
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Skift, n.2 [Of uncertain origin, but poss. related to (mainly north.) ME and e.m.E. skift v. (14th c.) to shift, change, move, ON skipta. See Bawcutt The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas (STS) p. 241, n. 856.] ? A skip or skipping movement. — a1500 King Hart 856.
But scoup, or skift, his craft is all to scayth
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