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Quotation dates: 1898
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CLASH, n.2 “A cavity of considerable extent in the acclivity of a hill; . . . the interstice between a large hill and a smaller one adjacent to it, and intervening between it and the plain” (Sc. 1808 Jam., Abd.2 1937).Abd., Per. 1898 E.D.D.:
I gaed as far as “the clash” for her.
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