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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1754, 1829
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BAD, n.1 Also baud. A thicket, clump of trees, bushes, plants, etc.Per. 1754 Callander MSS. (Sc. Rec. Off.):
The Clumpses or Bads of Greenock. Lth. 1829 G. Robertson Recoll. 230:
The men, fitted each with a mitten of thick cloth on the right hand, adventuring into the midst of the dense bauds, or thickets, of the enemy [thistles], drew them up one by one.
[Ad. Gael. bad, tuft, clump, thicket.]
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