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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1814

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†LEDINGTON, prop.n. Also lead-. The name of a variety of apple.Sc. 1814 J. Sinclair Agric. Scot. App. I. 439:
These leadingtons are tolerable fruits … All of them standards, and all of Scottish origin.

[O.Sc. Lidingtown, id., 1683. So called from the estate of the Maitland family at Lethington (now Lennoxlove) in East Lothian.]

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