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Quotation dates: 1871
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BACK-FAULDS, n. Fields at the rear of, or at some distance from, a farmhouse.Abd.(D) 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xv.:
Clinkies likes his stibbles weel riven up; an' the set 't he hed hed wi' 'im afore the term's been makin' bonny wark til 'im i' the back-faulds.
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