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1643 Orkney Witch Trial in Abbotsford Club Misc. I. 184 I took ane seif and..set ane cogge full of water in the seive, and then laid ane woll scheir on the coggis mouth.
1831 J. C. LoudonEncycl. Agric. (ed. 2) 373 The wool-shears are..worked with one hand.