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Quotation dates: 1500-1560
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Hors-rinning, -rynning, -yng, n. [e.m.E. horse-running (1601).] Horse-racing. — 1504 Criminal Trials I. i. 121.
To Dande Doule, quhilk he wan fra the King on hors rynnyng c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxix. 9.
Halking, huntting, and swift hors rinning 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 1744.
This knicht kest all his haill intent In hors rinning 1560 Ib. 10301.
Greit tornamentis with hardie hors rynning
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