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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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WEEL-CHAPPIT, ppl.adj. Of the years of one's age: all told, fully accounted for, each year being compared to the stroke of an hour on a clock (see Chap, v.¹, 1. (2)).Lth. 1894 M. Oliphant Who was Lost viii.:
No, she's no bairn. Two-and-thirty well-chappit, as the poor folk say. She should have been married long ago.