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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1629
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(Schot bled,) Shot(e)bled. [Schot p.p. of S(c)hute v. and Blade n. Also in the later dial.] The leaf which encloses a stalk of corn before it comes to ear. — 1629 Boyd Last B. (1629) 726.
The sun … maketh … the cornes to come vp at the first with small green points, and after to shoote vp to the shot bled [1831 shote bled], & after that to come to the seede
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