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Quotation dates: 1520
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(Wattir tabilling,) Vatter tabilling, n. [e.m.E. water tablinge (1578).] Coping. — 1520 Dunferm. B. Rec. I 171.
The said Gavin biggand ane gavill of stane and bovaland one the said Johne Vilsone syd, wytht vatter tabilling one the sammyn part
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