a. Now dial. = THATCHLESS.

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a. 1800.  Witch Cake, in Cromek, Rem. Nithsdale Song (1810), 284. Some priest maun preach in a thackless kirk.

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1897.  Ld. E. Hamilton, Outlaws, xviii. 209. The auld Redheuch tower stands thakless and woefu’ this day.

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