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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quher(e)at, Wher(e)at, interrog. and rel. adv. [e.m.E. wherat (1535), whereat.] = Quhar(e)at. —(1) 1570 Misc. Bann. C. I 40.
For all his raschnes in speiking he kenis weill ynoughe wherat he wald be —(2) a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1804) 207.
Arran was lettin lowse … whereat she stomakit a litill c1616 Hume Orthog. 18.
Quherat al laughed, as if I had bene dryven from al replye
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