Sc. forms of EARTH.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 35. Out of the ȝeard we cutt peates and turfes.

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a. 1783.  Burd Ellen, xi., in Child, Ballads, III. 88/1. A yeard-fast stane.

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