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Quotation dates: 1837
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¶BOILLED, ppl.adj. Wound round, coiled about.wm.Sc. 1837 Laird of Logan 57:
An awfu' looking skup it was, sticking out afore ye an ell and a half, (boilled round wi' crape.)
[If the word is genuine, poss. a vbl. form from Boil, n.1, made like a tree trunk, made round, swelling and stiff.]
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