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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1804

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†PEAT, n.3 The badger.Sc. 1804 T. Thornton Sporting Tour (1896) 283:
A badger, called, universally over Scotland, brocks or peats, which is also one of the names used north of Trent.

[The above statement is not authenticated. The word in the form pate occurs in n.Eng. dial. from the 17th c., of uncertain orig.]

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