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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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†HAMP, n.2 Sc. form of Eng. hemp.Sc. 1721 D. Warrand Culloden Papers (1925) II. 219:
We dont pretend to guess whither you are sending these twelve men of war, if for hamp . . . that commodity was never more wanted in Brittan than att present.
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