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(Unhavand,) Unhawing, pres. p. [Un- prefix1 and Have v.1 Cf. Unhavandppl. adj.] tr. Not having (something). — 1594 Dundee B. Laws 516.
The number of vnfriemen walkeris and webstaris … eitting … the bread out of the mouthis of the servandis … within this burt, vnhawing yarne to bear bracking in the same in tyme coming gif thae [sc. the unfreemen] be not halden to the executionn of the said ordinances
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