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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1553-1573
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(Meting-,) Metynge-, Meitting-place, n. [e.m.E. meetingplace (1589).] A meeting-place; a place of trysting, assembling or mustering. — 1553 Reg. Privy C. I. 149.
Nocht half ane Scottis myle fra the said metynge place of Roddane burne 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 105.
The passages … being weill set at the said meitting place
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