Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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BLEACHFIELD, n. A bleaching works with its adjacent drying-ground (n.Sc., Per. 1975). Now gen. as a survival in place-names.Rnf. 1749 W. Hector Judicial Rec. (1876) 148:
On the Thanksgiving day lybelled or Injoined by the King's Authority, he openly bleached att his bleachfield att Maxwellton. m.Lth. 1795 H. MacNeill Scotland's Skaith 59–60:
Lasses on the bleachfield hurry Skelping bare-fit owre the green. Sc. 1839 Wilson's Tales of the Borders V. 400:
The very hat he bought from Andrew before he gaed to the bleachfield.
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