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Quotation dates: 1754
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BAUCHLE, v.3 To confront (an adversary), to stand up to, to dare or challenge. Add the article Bauchling here.Rnf. 1754 Session Papers, Cumming v. Cross (8 Dec.) 3:
Robert Cross took some [bank-] Notes out of his Pocket, and said he would have the Victual delivered to him, either by the Renfrew Standard, or the Farm Firlot, under under pain of thir Notes, which he laid on the Table; upon which John Cumming put the Notes away from him, and said he had nothing to bauchle him with but those Notes.
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