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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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¶YATTER, v.² ? To set hard, make rigid like iron, to solidify, in quot. fig. of frost.Ayr. 1826 R. Hetrick Poems 82:
And when the North her power awakes To whirl forth her snowy flakes, And yatter up the lanes and lakes As firm's a vice.