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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1420, 1499-1512, 1576-1603
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Fure, Feure, n.1 [e.m.E. feure, fure, fore, OE. fure gen. sing., fura pl. of furh. Cf. Fur n.] A furrow. c1420 Wynt. iv. 234.
Walepand oure floys and furys [: spurys] All before the ost he rade c1420 Ib. ix. 429.
Nowther fure na fute of land Wes at thaire pes c1500-c1512 Dunb. xvii. 12 (B).
Barronis takis fra the tennents peure All fruct that growis on the feure c1500-c1512 Ib. xxi. 78.
Quhen flude and fyre sall … frustir feild and fure 1576 Reg. Great S. 753/2.
A teilit fure of manurit land 1595 Reg. Privy C. V. 220.
[The laird took horses] and patt thame in the pleuch, and teillit sevin or aucht furis of land thairwith 1603 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II. 25.
Thow hid sewin heids of the said sheip under furis of rigsattrib. a1500 Doug. King Hart 194.
Furth he flang A fure leynth fer befoir his feiris fyve
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