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Quotation dates: 1775-1845
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†LINTON, prop. n. Used attrib. to denote a variety of black-faced hill-sheep bred in the Tweed region (Sc. 1814 J. Sinclair Agric. Scot. III. 115).Sc. 1775 Survey Assynt (S.H.S.) li. note:
The hundred Ewes with their Lambs that I wanted of the Linton Sheep at Dunkeld.Peb. 1815 in A. Pennecuik Tweeddale 157:
This is still the principal Sheep Market in Scotland, for the short-bodied, black-faced and legged, horned, and coarse-woolled sheep, called, from it, the Linton Breed.Arg. 1845 Stat. Acc.2 VII. 188:
The most common breed of sheep, as already stated, is the Linton or black-faced.
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