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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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¶BEEVIE, v. To pile up. The sense is a nonce extrapolation from Baivie, a heaped-up fire.Abd. 1922 Swatches o' Hamespun 67:
She geddert oxterfu's o' the seggs an' heddir, filk she beevied ahint the door.
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