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Quotation dates: 1824
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†E'ENSHANKS, n. An afternoon or early evening meal (s.Sc. 1887 Jam.6). Cf. Antrum and fower-hoors, s.v. Fower, id. [′inʃɑŋks]Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 232:
Your minnie burdies ye maun lae, Ten to my nocket I maun hae, Ten to my e'enshanks. . . .Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 193:
E'enshanks . . . was that food our ancestors took about five o'clock in the evening, now designated by the title of four-hours.
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