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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1773-1827, 1898
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‡BARRACE, BARRAS, BARREI, n.
1. Tournament lists, an enclosure.Sc. 1808 Jam.:
We still speak of "a cock in a barrace," in allusion to a cock-pit.Fif. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 150:
The kist it boundit on the ground, Scatterin', throu' a' the barrei's bound, The banes frae side to side.Edb. 1773 R. Fergusson Sc. Poems (1925) 30:
The farmers sons, as yap as sparrows, Are glad, I trow, to flee the barras.
‡2. A wire fire-guard. Not known to our correspondents.Edb. 1898 W.G. in E.D.D.:
Barras. Rarely used.
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