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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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BARKET, n. The upright members of a pier built of timber with a stone filling, freq. in the burgh records of Crail c.1800. [Cf. O.Sc. barcatt, 1555, a kind of wooden trestle or support, of obscure orig.]
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