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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1625-1667
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Unbrekit, -brecked, ppl. adj. [17th c. Eng. braked (1653); Brake n.] Of flax: Not beaten or crushed with a brake. — 1625 Edinburgh Testaments LIII 114.
Sex stoukis & sex beatis of vnbrekit lint 1667 Kelso Baillie Ct. 39.
All persons who have any lint as yett unbrecked swingled or rubed that they cause work the samen befor Michalmes nixt
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