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Quotation dates: 1674
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Ludge, n. (? Bolt-rope, leech(-line): cf. e.m.E. litch and Linche n. and Lek n.2) — 1674 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 171.
To sett up ane chop for vending of all sort of necessaries for the use of shipping allenerly viz. irone gunns, … all sorts of leaden bullets, … pouder barells, … compasses of all sorts, haill and halff watch glaisss, ludge and ludge lynes [etc.]
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