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Quotation dates: 1488
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Efter-fall, n. [e.m.E. fall in naut. use.] A tackle-end. — 1488 Acts Lords Auditors 113/2.
Defalkand … alsmekele as the efter fallis of the teis of the schip … is prufit of avale
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