sebletn.
dialect.
A basket in which seed is carried in sowing broadcast; see seed-lip n. seblet cake: see quot. 1855.
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1633–4 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. 64 For a seblet to sowe corne 00 01 00.
1852 Bearn in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 13 i. 101 The drill takes the place of the seblet.
1855 Leisure Hour 751 The seblet-cake was a seed-cake with which it was once the custom to regale the workmen when all the wheat for the season had been sown.
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