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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1829

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BEATEN, ppl.adj. Eng. form but used of the foot in Sc. to indicate hurt or pressed by the shoe.Slg. 1829 G. Wyse Orig. Poems III. 40:
Some cripple sair, wi' beaten feet.

[Cf. Bate, v.1, 2.]

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