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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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YANKEE, n.¹ Sc. usage: the name given to a cloth-cropping machine imported from America.Slk. 1886 T. Craig-Brown Hist. Slk. I. 570:
To James Paterson, Galashiels, £20 for introducing from America [in 1820] the cropping machine still known as “The Yankee.”