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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1793

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STAMMERER, n. See quot.Lnk. 1793 D. Ure Rutherglen 259:
Besides the regular strata, a great number of detached pieces called stammerers, are, in many places of the parish, imbedded in clay.

[Deriv. of Stammer, sc. a piece that has stumbled away from the regular strata. Cf. wanderer, used of a detached stone in Eng. dial.]

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